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Piik Documentation

About Piik · 中文介绍 · 中文上手指南

Guides And References

Task Guide
Try the online demo Online demo · Demo steps
Watch a friend or share my first screen Getting started
Choose an App mode or fix sound and connection trouble First-use help
Run Piik App, check platform requirements, or build a package App guide
Try or change the source code Run from source
Find a directory or the module responsible for a behavior Repository layout and module map
Host a site for my group Self-hosting · 中文部署
Keep a server running with systemd or Docker Service management
Set passwords, ports, or room storage Configuration
Update my server Server updates
Build, publish or recover a maintained release Maintainer release tooling
Send a useful bug report Diagnostics and export
Translate Piik or improve wording Translation guide · 中文翻译教程
Check release and platform readiness Current status

The introduction, getting-started, self-hosting and translation guides are available in English and Chinese. Technical references keep one shared version.

Run from source

You can try the Browser application locally with Node from .node-version, npm from package.json, and Go 1.26 from go.mod. Run these commands from the repository root.

Start the web UI:

npm ci
npm run dev

In a second terminal, start the server. For a POSIX shell:

PORT=8788 PUBLIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8787 go run ./cmd/piik-server

Or in PowerShell:

$env:PORT = '8788'
$env:PUBLIC_BASE_URL = 'http://localhost:8787'
go build -o build/dev/piik-server.exe ./cmd/piik-server
./build/dev/piik-server.exe

The fixed Windows executable path avoids repeated firewall prompts from go run. Open localhost:8787, start sharing, and open the invitation in another browser tab to try watching. This localhost invitation stays on your computer; remote invitations need a reachable origin as described in configuration. Browser capture requires localhost or HTTPS.

For the self-contained App, follow App development and packaging, including the platform's native capture requirements.

Work on Piik

Contributing covers the workflow and choosing focused checks. The main verification commands are:

npm run check
npm run check:client

Use the naming and copy guide for product names, commands, role labels and Chinese/English voice. Piik-owned code uses MIT; see the licensing guide for third-party components.

For the public website, see the introduction design and website preview and publishing.

Understand the product

Topic Its reference
Invitations, room codes and passwords Rooms and access
How viewers connect Routing and transport
Screen capture, quality controls and sound Media quality
Host and viewer behavior Presentation and lifecycle
Why a design was chosen Architecture decisions
Measurements and platform limits Research and verification status

Shared conventions

When changing… Follow this owner
Module responsibilities or interfaces Engineering and contract map
Product/tool names, role labels or copy Naming and copy
UI colour, illustration, motion or layout Visual language
Overlays, titles or state indicators Media status
Releases, protocols or stored formats Versions and compatibility
Main protection or automatic publishing GitHub operations
Documentation or a duplicated rule Documentation ownership
Checks, PRs, integration or cleanup Contributing

For ongoing work, use TODO. Project memory provides the compact product map; status indexes current source and deployment boundaries. Completed work lives in Git history and pull requests.