Phoenix Desktop

This repo deals with Windows, Mac and Linux Desktop builds of Phoenix Code Editor (opens in a new tab).

Please see https://github.com/phcode-dev/phoenix on how to Contribute or get in touch with the community.

Status

Experimental development- Work in progress, Track status here: https://github.com/orgs/phcode-dev/projects/1/views/1

We use Tauri (opens in a new tab) as our app shell. We maintain the phcode-tauri-shell (opens in a new tab) and phcode static website (opens in a new tab) code in two separate repositories. This separation is intended to simplify development by distinctly isolating the shell and phcode. For instance, if you are solely developing the shell internals, you can always construct an empty tauri app without having to build phoenix.

Follow the below instructions to set up development environment.

Prerequisites

• Setup node and npm 16+ (opens in a new tab).
• Setup [tauri prerequisites]( https://tauri.app/v1/guides/getting-started/prerequisites/) for your platform.
• Setup Install gulp globally once with npm install -g gulp-cli (use sudo npm install -g gulp-cli in *nix systems)

Get the code for development

Get phoenix (opens in a new tab) and phoenix-desktop (opens in a new tab) into two folders in your computer. _IMPORTANT:_ phoenix and phoenix-desktop should be within the same parent directory!!!

Running Phoenix Desktop Development Builds

For development, tauri will directly load the phcode static server url "localhost:8000/src" from the phoenix repo. So you can quickly iterate changes without rebuilding tauri src for each change. Just a simple reload will suffice.

• Setup and run phoenix by following the steps.

Detailed instructions on how to setup and run phoenix are available here (opens in a new tab)

• To build desktop development build after starting phoenix server:

Phoenix Desktop will start compiling and the editor window should appear after the build is done.

• Now you can make changes to phoenix (opens in a new tab) and phoenix-desktop (opens in a new tab) independently and see changes live.
• Changes in phoenix-desktop folder built with Tauri will be auto compiled and live patched on save.
• To load changes in phoenix folder, just reload Phoenix by pressing f5 in the Phoenix window just like you would do on the browser versions of Phoenix.