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At the end of this road, I foresee a full IDE baked into Firefox. I can't wait. It would so great if you could just open the App Manager, click "Create New App

by diafygi 12y ago

At the end of this road, I foresee a full IDE baked into Firefox. I can't wait. It would so great if you could just open the App Manager, click "Create New App", check the boxes of the libraries you want to include by default (jQuery, Ember, etc.), and it would then generate a Hello World app folder with all those files included. Heck, Firefox Developer Tools is practically already an IDE. All that really remains for it is a "Resources" tab with text editing ability. EDIT: Additionally, being beginner-friendly would be a huge advantage to Firefox OS because its target market is the developing world. Only requiring an installation of Firefox to develop apps would significantly lower the barrier for who could learn to develop apps. Locals could quickly learn to make an app that caters specifically to their local community (what farms are hiring, where the cleanest water is, etc.).

untothebreach 12y ago
If you are running Aurora, you can have almost all of this: go to about:config, search for "webide.enabled" and change the value to true It won't download and install the js libraries for you, but it does let you click "Create New App" and sets a bunch of stuff up for you. You can even install a Firefox OS simulator to test your app with.
desireco42 12y ago
Well isn't that what Netscape had :) everything comes around. I actually think this part was really good part of Netscape Navigator and was in spirit of how html was intented to be used.
smacktoward 12y ago
It's already there :-D https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/webide-lands-in-nightly/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/webide-lands-in-nightly/ (Well, in the nightlies anyway.)
- fwenzel 12y ago
  You're right! recroom works well with WebIDE. You build your app and can then use WebIDE (and even the Ember Inspector Firefox add-on) to debug your app, for instance in the Firefox OS Simulator. Future plans of ours include having recroom (and really, any toolchain; this is not a privilege we only want Mozilla projects to have) integrate even more smoothly with the WebIDE, with more direct integration points like "pre-push hooks".
- davidmat 12y ago
  I just found out yesterday Chrome has one as well https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-develop/pnoffddplpippgcfjdhbmhkofpnaalpg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-...

by diafygi 12y ago

untothebreach 12y ago

If you are running Aurora, you can have almost all of this: go to about:config, search for "webide.enabled" and change the value to true It won't download and install the js libraries for you, but it does let you click "Create New App" and sets a bunch of stuff up for you. You can even install a Firefox OS simulator to test your app with.

desireco42 12y ago

Well isn't that what Netscape had :) everything comes around. I actually think this part was really good part of Netscape Navigator and was in spirit of how html was intented to be used.

smacktoward 12y ago

It's already there :-D https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/webide-lands-in-nightly/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/06/webide-lands-in-nightly/ (Well, in the nightlies anyway.)

fwenzel 12y ago
You're right! recroom works well with WebIDE. You build your app and can then use WebIDE (and even the Ember Inspector Firefox add-on) to debug your app, for instance in the Firefox OS Simulator. Future plans of ours include having recroom (and really, any toolchain; this is not a privilege we only want Mozilla projects to have) integrate even more smoothly with the WebIDE, with more direct integration points like "pre-push hooks".
davidmat 12y ago
I just found out yesterday Chrome has one as well https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-develop/pnoffddplpippgcfjdhbmhkofpnaalpg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-dev-editor-...