{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nylas/N1/issues/528","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nylas/N1/issues/528/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nylas/N1/issues/528/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nylas/N1/issues/528/events","html_url":"https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/528","id":119762255,"number":528,"title":"Feature Request: Expose sync engine URI as runtime config item","user":{"login":"tisjames","id":1200675,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1200675?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames","html_url":"https://github.com/tisjames","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tisjames/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-12-01T17:03:12Z","updated_at":"2015-12-04T22:08:42Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Apologies if I've phrased this badly. I have the sync engine running on a server and consequently have built the N1 client as per the section \"Running Against Open Source Sync Engine\" in https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md . Building the client was necessitated by \r\nthe need to point to the remote URI for my sync engine instance in nylas-api.coffee.\r\n\r\nIf this is a relatively common use-case, could the configuration required to point the N1 client to a sync engine instance be exposed through a config file loaded at runtime by the binary distributed (so, we'd get the full benefit  of what's described in \"What is bundled in the N1 download, but not the GitHub repo?\" and convenient client updates)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nylas/N1/issues/comments/162095366","html_url":"https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/528#issuecomment-162095366","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nylas/N1/issues/528","id":162095366,"user":{"login":"mbilker","id":1266541,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1266541?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker","html_url":"https://github.com/mbilker","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mbilker/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-04T22:08:42Z","updated_at":"2015-12-04T22:08:42Z","body":"For the actual issue/request at hand, the `config.cson` file is in the `$HOME/.nylas` directory.\r\n\r\nThe directory is defined as `process.env.NYLAS_HOME` in `src/browser/main.coffee`."}}