Guides

Getting Started

Spin up the Jalapeno Labs game server and connect your first client.

Welcome

This guide walks you through standing up the self-hosted Jalapeno Labs game server and pointing a client at it. It is the first entry in the developer docs and a working example of the typed docs content collection.

What you will need

  • A machine with Docker installed.
  • Node.js 22 or newer for the TypeScript and React SDK.
  • About ten minutes.

Steps

  1. Clone the monorepo and install dependencies with Yarn Berry.
  2. Bring the stack up with docker compose up.
  3. Point the SDK at your server’s base URL and authenticate.

Once the server is running, every Jalapeno Labs game shares one account through it. The rest of the docs cover authentication, avatars, and the SDK surface in depth.