BoxCode

BoxCode is a tiling code editor.

Running locally

BoxCode can run out-of-the-box as either a traditional node.js web app or a node-webkit desktop app.

In either case you want to download the code (using git clone or github's tarball downloads)

git clone https://github.com/creationix/boxcode.git
cd boxcode

Then you need to install it's dependencies using npm (If you don't already have node.js installed, do that too)

npm install

As webapp

Now at this point, you can run the server and point a browser to it.

node server.js
# Point a browser to http://localhost:8080/

I'm trying to work in the latest versions of the major browsers, but not everything works perfectly. In Chrome, for example, there is no way a web app can intercept Control/Command + W, it will always close the browser tab. If you open the page in app mode however, it will work fine. (See Tools -> Create Application Shortcut)

In this mode the fs module is implemented as an RPC system over binary websockets to the node server using msgpack for data serialization.

As a desktop app

Download the latest node-webkit from https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit. Unzip this and place the nw executable and it's other files in the root of the boxcode folder. Then execute nw to start the app.

In this version, the fs module is the node.js fs module running in the same context as the browser code. There is no websocket/msgpack bridge needed.