optimisme / webtool

webTool

This is a tool to prototype and develop web sites easily. At the begining it was developed for teaching purposes, nowadays it surpasses this function with a complete set of features.

The project is server agnostic, despite it uses NodeJS as a web server. You can move the "tool" folder to any other kind of server.

There is an online (and slow to load) version where you can test this tool at:

https://optimisme.github.io/webTool/server/public/tool/

Obviously, with the online version, all the paths and URLs must be from Internet.

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webTool from an Electron App

You can use this tool as an app:

Windows: webtool-win-x86.zip

Linux: webtool-linux-x86.zip

Download and run it, remember that the server files are located at:

...resources/app/public/

webTool from a server

This tool can be used from any server, for example the nodejs one provided at the 'server' folder.

The tool itself is at '...server/public/tool' and can be moved to any other server

Download from this repo:

https://github.com/optimisme/webTool

git clone https://github.com/optimisme/webTool.git

Get into the server

cd server

Install project's dependencies:

npm install

When done, run the included web server with:

npm start

Or with an observer:

npm run app

When running, to use the tool, navigate to:

http://localhost:3002/tool

Place your public files at "public" folder (like ".css", ".js" and images), and reference them with its base path from the tool. For example:

"/file.png" is located at "./public/file.png"

Also, test the files generated by the tool, moving these files to the "public" folder.

npm and nodejs installation on Ubuntu

sudo apt install npm
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
sudo n latest