Launch the web server without the app

[rundexz]

Hello. I want to run the web server and display the discord chats without using the app itself because the app itself uses a lot of memory. What are the files in the project's source code responsible for that? Also, is it possible to skip the web server altogether and convert the discord chats into html format?

Thanks for your time

[chylex]

There's currently no way to launch the server without a GUI, but it shouldn't be too hard to add as a command line argument. I'll look into it next time I work on this, not sure when that'll be though. All the web server and database logic is in the app/Server project.

Mind that the project currently uses ASP.NET Core for the web server, which by itself probably uses a fair bit of memory, but there is a lightweight web server library for .NET I want to switch to at some point.

In recent versions, there is no way to skip the web server; there used to be an HTML export, but I removed it because it didn't play well with downloads, it was very inefficient, and once I made the viewer more efficient by serving more things from the web server, I didn't want to maintain two implementations of it. It would certainly be possible for someone to create their own program that will read the database, and export it into whatever format is desired.

[rundexz]

Thank for considering it. The issue is, with the app. is that the first launch causes my PC to freeze. It uses 4-5gb right away. Not sure why it does that. If I make it in time to kill the process, I can try and launch it again and it would not rush to fill my memory.

[chylex]

@rundexz What operating system?