Dear OpenRemote developers,
I want to change the manager: the menus, the white labeling, add custom pages (like an own approach of displaying assets) and add custom widgets.
To easily develop I’d like to use webpack.
I have a local Windows Docker desktop succusfully running, checked out the custom project template and am able to serve with npm serve.
(both from the openremote/ui/app/manager directory or the ui/app/custom directory).
When I pass the config=…/…/…/deployment/manager/app as option to the serve in the custom dir, it doesn’t get picked up (in the manager_config I have ‘custom’ as the realm).
When I do the same from the openremote/ui/app/manager I can see a realm dropdown with Master and Custom, where the Custom shows the right logo, however with the Master’s menu.
My understanding is that I could develop on the custom dir (with webpack serve), and when I am satisfied, place the code src folder in the deployment/manager/app, run a gradle built and then the dockerimage gets updated.
Am I thinking in the right direction here? Any thought errors?
How to make the manager_config work on the webpack serve on custom?
Should I copy the whole manager dir from openremote/ui/app to the custom dir in ui/app/custom ?
Any help/insight is greatly appreciated!
When I pass the config=…/…/…/deployment/manager/app as option to the serve in the custom dir, it doesn’t get picked up (in the manager_config I have ‘custom ’ as the realm).
The manager config for your custom project is stored in /deployment/manager/app.
Just double check if there is a manager_config.json file present on that URL and
that it uses the correct format 
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When I do the same from the openremote/ui/app/manager I can see a realm dropdown with Master and Custom , where the Custom shows the right logo, however with the Master ’s menu.
Double check whether your relative URL is correct. Because if your going up 3 folders,
it is pointing to the manager_config from the original OpenRemote project/repo.
Are you editing the correct file?
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My understanding is that I could develop on the custom dir (with webpack serve), and when I am satisfied, place the code src folder in the deployment/manager/app , run a gradle built and then the dockerimage gets updated.
Don’t think you need to move anything. Am not too known with the gradle build steps of the project,
so asking @Rich for some clarification here. I’m imagining you want to deploy it on web,
or planning on mobile apps?
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Am I thinking in the right direction here? Any thought errors?
Using the custom apps /ui/app/custom indeed looks to be the correct approach here 
You can inherit on existing features of the platform if you want to, or just import pages and reuse them.
The build process is also quite solid / automatic for custom apps, so extra build configuration should not be required.
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Thank you for your reply Martin!
The manager config.json is in the correct format and present on the URL, I double checked.
When I start the npm serve from the original OpenRemote repo I am adding an extra folder going up, from the custom project ( ui/app/custom) I only need to go up 3 folders.
I guess the passed configs in the custom project index file are not processed as they are in the orginal repo index.
Yes, I want to deploy the web.
So building the custom project should take the manager_json into account, and all overrides, excludes and extra widgets? No need to move the ui/app/custom files into the deployment folder (@Rich ?)