From b4a7b36dc8c4cee504177c6693d262b71c009a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: einhornimmond <info@einhornimmond.de>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:16:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] make grass optional, debug frontend .env

---
 deployment/bare_metal/.env.dist               |  4 +++
 deployment/bare_metal/install-missing-deps.sh | 25 ++++++++++---------
 deployment/bare_metal/start.sh                |  1 +
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/deployment/bare_metal/.env.dist b/deployment/bare_metal/.env.dist
index 6df408d71..9377fa7a2 100644
--- a/deployment/bare_metal/.env.dist
+++ b/deployment/bare_metal/.env.dist
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ FEDERATION_DHT_TOPIC=GRADIDO_HUB
 
 # Advanced Server Setup
 
+# SCSS Parsing 
+# grass speed up frontend building, but needs some time for the first setup because it is a rust program which need to be compiled
+USE_GRASS=false
+
 # Logging
 LOG_LEVEL=info
 GRADIDO_LOG_PATH=/home/gradido/gradido/deployment/bare_metal/log
diff --git a/deployment/bare_metal/install-missing-deps.sh b/deployment/bare_metal/install-missing-deps.sh
index 4d4fef813..1eb2d616e 100644
--- a/deployment/bare_metal/install-missing-deps.sh
+++ b/deployment/bare_metal/install-missing-deps.sh
@@ -56,19 +56,20 @@ then
 fi
 
 # rust and grass 
-if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null
-then
-    echo "'cargo' is missing, will be installed now!"
-    curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
-    export CARGO_HOME="$HOME/.cargo"
-    export PATH="$CARGO_HOME/bin:$PATH"
+if [ "$USE_GRASS" = true ]; then
+    if ! command -v cargo > /dev/null
+    then
+        echo "'cargo' is missing, will be installed now!"
+        curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
+        export CARGO_HOME="$HOME/.cargo"
+        export PATH="$CARGO_HOME/bin:$PATH"
+    fi
+    if ! command -v grass > /dev/null
+    then
+        echo "'grass' is missing, will be installed now!"
+        cargo install grass
+    fi
 fi
-if ! command -v grass > /dev/null
-then
-    echo "'grass' is missing, will be installed now!"
-    cargo install grass
-fi
-
 # redis
 if ! command -v  redis-cli --version > /dev/null
 then 
diff --git a/deployment/bare_metal/start.sh b/deployment/bare_metal/start.sh
index 194e879e6..4e4ac8e55 100755
--- a/deployment/bare_metal/start.sh
+++ b/deployment/bare_metal/start.sh
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ bun install --frozen-lockfile
 
 # build all modules
 log_step 'build all modules'
+log_warn cat $PROJECT_ROOT/frontend/.env
 turbo build --env-mode=loose --concurrency=$(nproc)
 
 # build inspector and dlt-connector