How to create an archived static version of an app

What is this?

Sometimes you might want to use an interkit app without the authoring system, live database and media server.

Example use cases:

• a museum guide on rental devices without internet connection
• archiving a project without maintaining the whole interkit system

Current limitations

Supported: database sheets and mediafiles

Unsupported: user accounts, chat, actions that call the server

Steps

• in Project/Settings, click “Create Archive” button. This will create a copy of the database and the current mediafiles and add them into the static/archive directory in the client

• you can test your archive by activating the Archive Mode toggle in the preview settings (the little gear symbol below the preview)

• activate archive mode on an app by calling it with ?archiveMode=true query parameter

• to use outside of the dev environment, you need to publish your app once. This copies the archive from static to public

• you can run your app by running a web server inside the public directory