FreeSewing provides a development environment to help you design and develop patterns.
There are two ways to run this development environment:
- Monorepo development: Use this if you intend to contribute your work to FreeSewing
- Stand-alone development: Use this if you want to do your own thing, and not contribute to FreeSewing
Monorepo development
Run yarn lab to start the development environment:
yarn lab
Then point your browser to http://localhost:8000
Adding a new design
This is all you need to work on existing designs. If you’d like to add a new design, run:
yarn new design
Just make sure to re-start the lab afterwards with yarn lab
Stand-alone development
You will have a new folder that has the name you picked for your design.
If you chose test, you will have a folder named test.
If you chose banana, you’ll have a folder named banana.
(Within this new folder, the design subfolder holds your design’s configuration file and source code.
You can ignore all other subfolders and files; they are part of the development environment.)
To start the development environment, enter the folder that was created
and run yarn dev (or npm run dev if you’re using npm as a package manager).
Then open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000
The development environment will watch for any changes you make to the pattern’s source code or configuration. When you do, it will update automatically in your browser.
Yay, you’re done!
All you have to do now is design your pattern. Thankfully, we have a tutorial for that too:
- Pattern design tutorial: A step-by-step guide to designing your first pattern