Welcome to Phoenix!

Phoenix is a modern open-source and free code editor for the web, built for the browser.

Code Guardian

Phoenix is in early alpha.

• Test out development build of phoenix by visiting this URL: http://phoenix.core.ai/src
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Tenets

1. Targeted for web development. Js, html and CSS enjoy special status.
2. Light-weight editor.
3. Extension support maintaining full compatibility with Brackets extensions (except brackets-node extensions).
4. Uncompromised local development experience.
5. Support for pluggable remote back-ends.
6. Phoenix core will work from a static web server.

Status

Phoenix is in alpha and is under active development.

• Phoenix Alpha development status.

Contributing/ Feedback

• Get in touch with our community.
• Request a new feature
• Join our Discord community
• Raise issues
• Contribute

Building Phoenix

Source Repository

• Install gulp globally once. npm install -g gulp-cli (use sudo in *nix systems)
• run npm install
• To build after npm install: npm run build

Running phoenix

• run npm run serve in the terminal.
  • NB: To test Phoenix from an external mobile or machine, use npm run serveExternal instead of serve
• Use chrome/edge browser to navigate to http://localhost:8000/src/index.html

IDE Setup

SonarLint static code analysis checker is not yet available as a Brackets extension. Use sonarLint plugin for webstorm or any of the available IDEs from this link before raising a pull request: https://www.sonarlint.org/

Building Release artifacts

• run npm install
• To build the release artifacts: npm run release
• The release artifacts to host will be in dist folder.

Running tests

• run npm run test in the terminal.
  • NB: this will setup all the required files for test
• Use chrome/edge browser to navigate to Phoenixhttp://localhost:8000/src/index.html
• In Phoenix Menu, select Debug > run Tests To open the test runner.
• Run tests as required.
  • NB: To reset test data files, click on reset and reload tests option in the test runner.

Browsing the virtual file system

To view/edit the files in the browser virtual file system in Phoenix: debug menu> Open Virtual File System

Clean and reset builds

• clean builds only: npm run clean
• Reset everything including node modules: npm run reset

Acknowledgements

• Phoenix is based on the Brackets code editor by Adobe. Find out more on Adobe Brackets here.
• Inspired by previous work from the Mozilla Thimble project to port brackets to the web. https://github.com/mozilla/brackets
• In browser server based on nohost by https://github.com/humphd/

License

Discussion: phcode-dev#184

GNU AGPL-3.0 License

Modified work Copyright (c) 2021 - present Core.ai

Original work Copyright (c) 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0.