Minetrack

Migrating to Minetrack 5

Minetrack 5 is the first of several upcoming updates designed to address several legacy bugs and design flaws in previous Minetrack versions. As part of this, it modifies some data structures and operational instructions that make the upgrade process more manual than seen previously. This guide covers the distinct differences, with upgrade instructions, to get you started.

Upgrading Minetrack 5

  1. Stop any running instance of Minetrack.
  2. If you’ve cloned the repository, use git clone https://github.com/Cryptkeeper/Minetrack Minetrack5. If you’ve manually downloaded a release or an archive of the repository, download a fresh copy and extract it into a directory named “Minetrack5”.
  3. Install Node 12.4.0+ (check your version with node -v)
  4. Open the directory and execute npm install --build-from-source. This will install updated (and new) dependencies needed by the program.
  5. If you have logToDatabase: true in your config.json, make sure to copy your database.sql file into the new directory, otherwise you will lose historical server activity and records.
  6. Copy your existing config.json and servers.json files into the new directory.
  7. Build your copy of dist/.
  8. If you have previously configured any faviconOverride values within config.json, you will need to move them to the updated structure. Create a new directory within your Minetrack folder named favicons/.
  9. If you have previously configured any minecraft.json values not included in the new minecraft_versions.json file, you will need to update their structure copy them to the new file.
  10. Move your custom favicon images into the directory.
  11. Open servers.json in your favorite editor.
  12. For any server which you have a custom favicon, set the “favicon” field like so:
{
	"name": "Hypixel",
	"ip": "mc.hypixel.net",
	"type": "PC",
	"favicon": "CustomHypixelFavicon.png"
}

(Replacing “CustomHypixelFavicon.png” with your file’s name.)

Do NOT include the favicons/ path in the value. For example a file, “my-favicon.png” in the directory favicons/ should be configured using simply “my-favicon.png”.

You may delete the faviconOverride, routes and versions portions of your config.json, they are no longer supported features. You may delete the minecraft.json file, it has been merged into minecraft_versions.json.

You’re done!

Building dist/

Minetrack now serves a “bundled” copy of the assets/ directory, instead of the files directly from disk. This optimizes the delivery speed, but requires an additional step when installing Minetrack or when modifying files within assets/.

  1. cd into your Minetrack directory (if not already there).
  2. Execute npm run build (npm run dev is also available, which skips the minimization step and makes active development easier).
  3. Run ls to ensure the dist/ directory has been created.

Whenever modifying files within assets/, you will need to re-run the npm run build step to reflect the changes. Those expert few of you may wish to dig into Parcel’s watch and serve CLI commands.

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