Installation for Linux · Reaction Docs

⚠️ Note: This guide has been deprecated as the release of Reaction 2.0. The latest installation guide can be found here.

Install prerequisites

Install Node

Follow the instructions at Node.js site for the latest long-term support (LTS) version, 8.

Note: Reaction is currently not compatible with Node 9.

Install Build Tools and Package Requirements

For Ubuntu/Debian

apt-get update

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential bzip2 curl ca-certificates git python

For CentOS/RHEL

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Install Meteor

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Install Reaction

Install the Reaction command-line interface (CLI)

# install CLI
npm install -g reaction-cli

Create your first Reaction project

# clone Reaction, install NPM dependencies
reaction init
# change directory into new Reaction project
cd reaction

If you don't want Reaction to be installed in the default reaction directory you can specify a directory like

reaction init my-new-reaction-project

Start Reaction

To start Reaction, run the reaction command

# start Reaction
reaction
# or
reaction run

Note: The first run can take a while as it downloads dependencies. This is especially true if you are not in North America.

The initial admin user for the site is auto generated, and displayed in your console (or see: env variables section to default these) By default the username will be :admin@localhost and the password will be: r3@cti0n

Congrats! Now you've created your first Reaction store. View the store by going to http://localhost:3000 in your favorite browser.

To terminate reaction use CTRL-c.

To learn more about the Reaction command-line-client visit the CLI docs

To learn how to manage your store as an admin user visit the admin documentation

To learn how to customize Reaction visit the Customization Guide

last_tested: Dec-8-2017