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Frappe Accounting

Simple app for personal and small businesses accounting

it's pronounced - fra-pay

Frappe Accounting is built on FrappeJS Framework a Full-Stack VueJS based meta-data driven web framework. Under the hood it uses Electron bundles.

Installation

Step 0

Install build essentials

Ubuntu

apt-get install build-essential python git
apt-get install libgconf-2-4

MacOS

xcode-select --install

You will also need Xcode App from App Store

Step 1

Install Node.js (version 12.6.0)

Tip: The best way to install and manage Node is to install nvm

Step 2

Install yarn package manager.

npm install -g yarn

Step 3

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/frappe/accounting.git

Step 4

Install dependencies and launch Accounting

cd accounting

# Install dependencies
yarn

# Start the electron app
yarn electron

Troubleshooting

• If you are facing node-gyp errors then you may need to:
  1. Install Xcode App from App Store.
  2. Use node v12.6.0
  3. Delete yarn.lock/package-lock.json