#Server and Web Application for live mobile programming#

This is a web application for creating and editing mobile applications live with support for both web technologies (HTML5/JavaScript) and the MoSync SDK for creating Native UI applications using JavaScript and/or accessing services on a mobile device through HTML5/JavaScript.

##Installation##

1. Clone the repo, make sure you have a working version of NodeJS installed on you machine, and launch the server app with node app.js;
2. Open the web app at http://localhost:5678;
3. Install the Live Mobile App on your mobile device, open it, and open http://localhost:5678/mobile or whatever the ip of your server is

Note 1: if you don't want to build the mobile app yourself, you can install the android package that resides in the output directory of the mobile app repository on your device.

Note 2: For iOS and Windows mobile you need to compile the mobile app yourself and install it on your device.

##Features##

• Templates (support for adding custom templates is still missing)
• GitHub authentication for loading Gists
• Create new files and save your Gists
• Autocompletion for both HTML and JavaScript
• Context-aware autocompletion for MoSync Native Widgets
• Manually evaluate portion of JavaScript code as in Smalltalk
• Live programming (code changes evaluate the top level expressions and function declarations). The code to be evaluated is marked in bold text
• Add resources (images, sounds...) to use with MoSync Native Widgets
• Live JavaScript linting (JSHint is used)
• Change numbers with a slider to quickly customise the UI on the device
• Change colours with a color palette to quickly customise the UI on the device

##Usage## There are two main modes:

1. Non-live programming

2. Write your HTML and/or JavaScript mobile app and re-run the app pressing the Restart button. In this way the JavaScript runtime is restored every time you restart the app, so no state is preserved.

3. Mark a piece of JavaScript code and right-click on it to execute it in the current runtime of the mobile device.

4. Live programming When changing code of a top-level expression, the code is executed immediately in the run time of the mobile device.