Pas2JS Template/Boilerplate

Step 1: Clone this repo

• Clone this repo or just download it, you can change the folder name after you downloaded

Step 2: Prepare your environment

Recommended VSCode extensions

• OmniPascal - Open Preview

On Linux (or Windows WSL or ChromeOS Linux container)

• Access the project folder (root of project folder) from command line
• Run the setup.sh script with ./scripts/setup.sh
• If all goes well, it'll download pas2js to your $HOME/.local/share/applications/ folder
• The dev and dist scripts are ready to use this folder structure

On Windows

• Access the project folder (root of project folder) from command line
• Run the setup.bat script from .\scripts\setup.bat
• If all goes well, it'll download pas2js to your %LocalAppData% folder
• The dev and dist scripts are ready to use this folder structure

Step 3: Open project and run from inside VScode

• Open project folder with VSCode (assuming you have VSCode installed)
• Install extension OmniPascal
• Open the terminal inside VSCode
• On Linux compile dev with ./scripts/buildDev.sh
• On Windows compile dev with .\scripts\buildDev.bat
• Access dev project in your browser on address http://localhost:8080
• Check your browser console to see if the project works
• CTRL+C on VScode terminal to stop the server

Building a release

• Open terminal inside VScode
• On Linux compile with ./scripts/buildDist.sh
• On Windows compile with .\scripts\buildDist.bat
• Access project on dist folder and upload to your server

How to compile the examples?

• Copy public_html, src and ìndex.html from inside the exemple you want to compile on top of the main public_html, src and ìndex.html overwriting them.
• Build the project

Can I use this to create backend apps too?

• Yes! Altho you might need to edit the build scripts - they are all commented and easy to understand.

Dependencies

• In case you are developing a backend app with Pas2JS, you'll need to have NodeJS or Bun in your system.