How to Run Bot Framework Composer Locally as Web Application?

You can download and run the composer as a Desktop application. But, you can also run it locally as a Web Application using the Yarn. I will go ahead and run on Windows.

Prerequisites

• Git.
• Node.js LTS 14.x, x64 or x32.
• Yarn 1.x.
• .NET Core SDK 3.1 or later.
• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 14.28 or later. Only x64 and x32 editions are supported.

Run the Composer Locally as Web App

Open any command-line tool and clone the source code from GitHub by running the below command.

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer.git

Navigate to the Composer directory.

cd BotFramework-Composer\Composer

Install the dependencies.

yarn install

Build the project.

yarn build

Start the client and the server. Run the below command in a separate terminal at the same above location.

yarn startall

Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000. You are ready to use the composer.

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