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title: Iconify API Deployment
Iconify API deployment: building API
This tutorial is a part of Iconify API deployment instructions.
This part of the tutorial explains how to build API before deploying it to a VPS instance.
Requirements
Node.js 24 or newer installed on your machine.
Terminal.
If you are using Windows, you can use Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Cloning API repository
Clone Iconify API repository.
If you are not familiar with git, you can just download repository. Click "Code" button and select "Download ZIP". Then unpack it.
Open terminal in the root of the repository.
Installing dependencies and building API
Run the following commands in the root of the repository:
npm install
npm run build
This will install all dependencies and build API.
Test
Make sure it works by running
npm run start
Wait for API to start. You can see output in terminal, when you see "API startup process complete", API is running.
Stop API process by pressing 
[str]Ctrl+C.
Configure
If you need to change configuration, create 
[file].env file in the root of the repository and add configuration variables.
See 
[file].env-sample for example as well as config documentation.
Next steps
Next step is to run a deployment script to set up server and deploy API.
See Iconify API deployment instructions.