Telescope: How I set it up

Overview

This week my task was to setup the telescope running locally and tell to my classmates how it went, so here I am :)

Environment setup guide

As a good well-established project, Telescope provides a great environment setup guide, which covers most use cases.

How it went to me

Setting up Telescope locally was kinda a problem to me, since after I run all proper commands like:

• installing pnpm globally
• installing dependencies with it: pnmp install
• run unit tests with pnpm test

I was having an issue with one dependency, so after several attempts to resolve it myself I reached the Telescope's community and filed an issue at the Telescope's github.

About 20 minutes after one of the maintainers reached to me and recommended me a way to resolve my issue that helped.

After that I was able to run the Telescope docker container with the following commands:

• pnpm services:start
• cp ./src/db/env.example .env
• pnpm db:init
• Removing the parser container (I just did it from the Docker UI)
• Run parser with pnpm services:start parser

Everything seems to run fine now :)

What I learned

The interesting seen that I have never seen before is pnpm It looks like it is an npm on steroids. As far as I see it does pretty much what npm does, but it just has some features that improve package installing speed like caching previously downloaded packages to some global local storage.