#codeCanvas Desktop

This is an open source effort to create a community driven version of codeCanvas to run in App.js on the desktop.

##Idea and goals

The application hosted at codeCanvas.org requires a good amount of server side file handling. My goal is to provide file handling in Node using the App.js framework.

##Getting Started

Download App.js for your platform (Mac, Linux, Windows)
Place the codeCanvas files into the 'content' directory in app.js
Start the app loader in the main app.js directory
Check out the promo video -> http://youtu.be/318y-PJArX4?hd=1
Check out the video -> building a simple form using a Bootstrap tool - http://youtu.be/7B5njAEy9Cs

##Structure

The application codebase is located in the 'app' directory
The user directory contains files needed to create tools (explained below)

###User directory

usertools.html - this contains the html for the tools in your toolbox. The html construct is located inside a LI with the class "userTool". This allows you to create tool html naturally.
usertools_design.js - This provides a the javascript for the tools while in the designer.
usertools_run.js - This provides the javascript your tool needs to work in a runtime environment
usertools_design.css - This provides the styles for the tools while in the designer.
usertools_run.css - This provides the styles your tool needs to work in a runtime environment

##Participation

The idea for this project came after many, many requests to open codeCanvas. It is far from perfect but the concept is working and just needs a good team of people to make it awesome.

We need people to help:

Code more awesome features
Create interesting tools
Write docs and do videos
Create a support forum

##To Do

a few things I am working on:

multiple layouts per project
layout tree and management
specific tools for each project
building a 'default' set of templates for new projects

##Contact

You can contact me on the codeCanvas website

http://www.codecanvas.org/contact/

michaelhull/codeCanvas-Desktop

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