Welcome to Cappuccino!

Introduction

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.

With Cappuccino, you don't concern yourself with HTML, CSS, or the DOM. You write applications with the APIs from Apple's Cocoa frameworks and the Objective-J language.

Check out a live demo of the widgets in Cappuccino

Check out some tutorials

For more information, see the

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If you discover any bugs, please file a ticket.

System Requirements

To run Cappuccino applications, all you need is a HTML5 compliant web browser.

Our tight integration with Xcode on MacOS brings the full power of visual Cocoa development to the web.

However, you can also work on other platforms using only a simple text editor.

Node.js version alpha

There is currently an ongoing effort to switch JavaScript platform from Narwhal to Node.js. To try the Node.js version, do the following:

Install Node.js and npm from the Node.js website.
Run npm set prefix ~/.npm. This will set the default install location for npm to ~/.npm. The reasoning behind this is outlined in the section about permission issues below.
Add this line to your .zshrc or equivalent.
```
export PATH="~/.npm/bin:$PATH"
```
Restart your shell.
Run npm install -g @objj/cappuccino.
Done! See below for basic usage.

Permisson issues

By default npm uses /usr/local/lib/node_modules as the install location for globally installed packages. This causes problems since users typically lack write permissions there. It is therefore recommended to either use a version manager, or change npm's default install location manually (which is what we did above). For more details on how to do this, see this article.

Basic usage

If the install succeeded you will be able to do the following to create a simple Cappuccino application:

capp gen HelloWorld
cd HelloWorld
python3 -m http.server
Go to localhost:8000 in your web browser.

Building Cappuccino from source

If you want to build Cappuccino from source you should clone the GitHub repository at https://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino/ and checkout the node-jake branch. Then you can use the command jake install to install Cappuccino and its tools locally.

To summarize:

git clone https://github.com/cappuccino/cappuccino.git
cd cappuccino
git checkout node-jake
Make changes to the codebase.
jake install

Beware that building and installing Cappuccino from source will overwrite the binaries installed from npm. To go back, simply run npm install -g @objj/cappuccino again.

Getting Started

To write you first application, download the starter package.

To contribute to Cappuccino, please read here: Getting and Building the Source.

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

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