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You will want to install both NodeJS and the yarn package manager before building the front end. You can install node by going to the node web page, https://nodejs.org/, and downloading the appropriate installer for your operating system.  On Mac OS X, you can install the Homebrew package manager and install NodeJS and yarn via that. On Linux, NodeJS is usually available via your operating system package manager.

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Before running Financials, Webpack needs to run to create a file named bundle.js that has all of the React components in it.  When built, this file is located at kfs-web/src/main/webapp/build/bundle.js.  If this isn’t done, the user interface will not render properly.  The maven pom for the kfs-web module of Financials has a step that will download NodeJS, yarn and Webpack and build the bundle.js for you.  To do this, run the following maven command:


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mvn frontend:webpackyarn@yarn-build -pl kfs-web web


If you install NodeJS, yarn and Webpack outside of Financials, you can run a Webpack in a mode called “watch”.  This will look for changes to the script files and create the bundle if the files change.  This feature is not available when running maven. Once node and yard yarn is installed, you can use yarn to install webpack.  To do this, follow these steps:

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