![]() ![]() If you choose your own index.html file from your own application, brackets shell will open that. If you remove the HTML app then the when you run the brackets shell it will ask you for the location of your index.html file. The installer installs the brackets-shell along with the brackets HTML application. The quickest route to doing this is to download the latest Brackets editor and install it. ![]() The first thing you will want to do is test the shell to see if your HTML application runs in it. But who would do that for you? The Brackets team did. And on top of that, did it in Grunt, which most JavaScript developers are already familiar with. Unless someone went through all the pain for you and automated the whole thing, including the creation of the installer. The Build Process – Building cross platform desktop applications can be a pain.NodeJS Integration – The brackets team recently integrated NodeJS into the brackets shell which allows for some really awesome plugin capabilities without learning C++.Backed by Adobe – A corporate sponsor doesn’t guarantee that the project will be around forever, but it is more promising than not having one.Very active development – Of all the HTML shells for the desktop, this one was the most active in terms of code being committed.Why Use Brackets Shell Instead of Other Solutions? The brackets-shell app is so well done, it made it easy for a web-developer like me to get my first ever C++ pull request accepted (I took credit for that whole pull request, but the windows portion was done by my good friend, Jordan). It takes Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) and adds some extras along with an excellent build tool. What is Brackets Shell?īrackets Shell is what allows Brackets to be run as a desktop application. And while I don’t use brackets myself just yet (hard to leave Sublime Text) it is definitely on my radar and I may make that switch soon. This puts Brackets in a unique opportunity that allows pretty much any developer that would use the editor (HTML and JavaScript guys) to add to and improve the editor with the very languages they use on a regular basis. What makes brackets so cool, though, is that the entire editor is written in HTML and JavaScript. UPDATE: I Posted part 2 of the series: JavaScript and the Brackets Shell Environment What is Brackets?īrackets is an open-source code editor created by Adobe. This will be the first of a series of posts dedicated to brackets-shell and customizing it for your native HTML desktop applications. I want to go more in-depth into what brackets is and why we chose it as our solution. I recently posted on the state of native desktop apps in HTML5 and mentioned that at my company we chose to use Brackets-Shell as our native app solution. ![]()
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