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amber-examples

This project contains various Amber Smalltalk examples. Amber may run in a web browser or as a command line program.

Tools needed

1. A web browser with reasonably good support for HTML5 canvas.
2. git, on Windows Git for Windows
3. nodejs. This will give you the node package manager npm as well.
4. A global install of the amber npm package
5. A global install of the bower client side package manager in order to install the dependencies
6. A global install of the grunt task runner which is used as the command line build system

The amber and bower packages can be installed with the following command (In some cases you have to call npm with sudo npm):

npm install --global amber-cli bower grunt-cli

or the same thing, but less typing:

npm i -g amber-cli bower grunt-cli

Reference: http://docs.amber-lang.net/js-glossary.html

Setting up amber-examples

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber-examples.git

Get dependencies of this project:

cd amber-examples 
git submodule update --init --recursive
npm install
bower install

Amber in the browser

Amber runs in the browser and this includes an IDE.

To have access to this start a small web server:

amber serve

and point your browser to

http://localhost:4000/

Amber on the command line

Build or recompile a command line example (e.g. nodejs) by executing

grunt

in the subdirectory.

The subdirectories might contain additional README files which might contain additional information.

Notes

• Since Amber version 0.10.0 grunt is used as commandline build system.

Status

• Loads fine with Amber version 0.12.6