Amber [![Travis CI Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/amber-smalltalk/amber.png)](https://travis-ci.org/#!/amber-smalltalk/amber) [![devDependency status](https://david-dm.org/amber-smalltalk/amber/dev-status.svg?style=flat)](https://david-dm.org/amber-smalltalk/amber#info=devDependencies) ===== By Nicolas Petton and [Amber contributors](https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/contributors) Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime. It is designed to make client-side development faster and easier. > \o/ **Call for contributors!** \o/ > > The core project of Amber has enough resources, but: > - the Helios IDE (https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/helios), as well as > - examples (https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber-examples), and > - documentation (https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber-documentation) > > would need some of your care. > > Thank you very much! > > (see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for further details) Overview -------- Amber is written in itself, including the parser and compiler. Amber compiles into efficient JavaScript, mapping one-to-one with the equivalent JavaScript. There is no interpretation at runtime. Some highlights: - Amber features an IDE with a Class browser, Workspace, Transcript, a ReferencesBrowser supporting senders/implementors and class references, basic Inspector and even a beginning of a Debugger and a unit TestRunner. - [Pharo Smalltalk](http://www.pharo-project.org) is considered as the reference implementation. - Amber includes a canvas to generate HTML, like [Seaside](http://www.seaside.st) - Amber can use Javascript libraries and the current IDE is built on [jQuery](http://www.jquery.com) - You can inline Javascript code and there are many ways to interact between Amber and Javascript Getting Amber ------------- Amber is shipped as a [npm](http://npmjs.org) package for its CLI tools and as a [bower](https://github.com/bower/bower) package for the client-side. For installation to work, you need to install node, npm and git (in Windows, use Git for Windows and select "Run Git from Windows Command Prompt" and "Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style" installation options). # Install the CLI tool `amber-cli` npm install -g amber-cli # Initialize your project (directory must be empty) cd /path/to/myproject amber init # Serve amber on localhost:4000 amber serve The [Getting started](https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/Getting-started) page shows more details on ways to obtain Amber and start a project. Building Amber -------------- This step is only used by people developing Amber itself. Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for further details. It explains the Amber development setup and how to contribute. License ------- Amber is released under the MIT license. All contributions made for inclusion are considered to be under MIT. More infos ---------- More on the [project page](http://amber-lang.net)