phoenix

Welcome to Phoenix!

Website: https://phcode.dev

Phoenix is a modern open-source and free software text editor designed to make coding as simple and fun as playing a video game.

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Tenets

1. Targeted for web development. Js, html and CSS enjoy special status.
2. Game UX - Approach code editing like a game that a school kid would play after skipping the tutorial.
3. Light-weight editor.
4. Extension support maintaining full compatibility with Brackets extensions (except brackets-node extensions).
5. Uncompromised local development experience.
6. Support for pluggable remote back-ends.
7. Phoenix core will work from a static web server.
8. Compile step less build process. Code changes in phoenix do not need to be recompiled for most cases for development.
9. Prioritize simplicity and ease of development.

Contributing/ Feedback

• Get in touch with our community.
• Request a new feature
• Join our Discord community
• Raise issues
• Contribute

Building Phoenix

Source Repository

• Install gulp globally once.
  • In Mac/Linux: sudo npm install -g gulp-cli
  • In Windows: npm install -g gulp-cli
• run npm install
• To build after npm install:
  • npm run build - generate builds close to release builds locally.
  • or npm run build:debug to build debug builds for development with more debug symbols.

Running phoenix

• run npm run serve in the terminal.
• Use chrome/edge browser to navigate to http://localhost:8000/src

IDE Setup

SonarLint static code analysis checker is not yet available as a Brackets extension. Use sonarLint plugin for webstorm or any of the available IDEs from this link before raising a pull request: https://www.sonarlint.org/

For Claude Code or Codex, see Phoenix Builder MCP setup. The repository includes configuration for both clients to control and test a Phoenix dev build.

Building Release artifacts

• run npm install
• To build the release artifacts, run one of the following commands depending on what build you want:
  • npm run release:dev, npm run release:staging, npm run release:prod
• The release artifacts to host will be in dist folder.

Running and debugging tests in browser

This is the easiest and preferred way to run Phoenix tests.

• run npm run build in the terminal.
  • NB: this will setup all the required files for test
• Use chrome/edge browser to navigate to Phoenixhttp://localhost:8000/src/index.html
• In Phoenix Menu, select Debug > Phoenix Code Diagnostic Tools > Run Phoenix Code Tests To open the test runner.
• Run tests as required.
  • NB: To reset test data files, click on reset and reload tests option in the test runner.
• You can use the browser dev tools to debug.

Running and debugging tests in playwright headless mode or in GitHub Actions

We use Playwright to run the headless version of our tests. Please note that we do not use Playwright as our actual test framework, but as a headless browser(chrome and firefox) to run our tests written in Jasmine/Mocha.

• run npm run test<*> in the terminal to run the unit tests run in GitHub actions. Eg. npm run testChromium.
• To debug the tests, npm run test<*>Debug. Eg. npm run testFirefoxDebug. However, we recommend using the above Running tests in browser section to actually fix/debug tests that are failing in the pipeline. It has much better debug UX and fixing it directly in the browser will almost certainly fix it in playwright.
• To run integration tests use command: npx cross-env TEST_ENV=<integration suite name> npm run test<*>
  • The allowed integration test suite names are: integration, LegacyInteg, mainview, livepreview. You can get these suite names from the test runner.
  • Eg: npx cross-env TEST_ENV=integration npm run testChromium
• To debug integration tests use command: npx cross-env TEST_ENV=<integration suite name> npm run test<*>Debug
  • Eg: npx cross-env TEST_ENV=mainview npm run testChromiumDebug

Running tests in dev staging and prod stacks in playwright

To run tests against these stacks locally, follow these steps:

1. Build the release using npm run release:<stage>. Eg: npm run release:dev
2. Run the unit tests using format: npm run test<*>Dist. Eg. npm run testChromiumDist.
3. Run the integration tests using the format: npx cross-env TEST_ENV=<integration suite name> npm run test<*>Dist. Eg. npx cross-env TEST_ENV=mainview npm run testChromiumDist.

To run tests against these dev/staging/prod in the browser

1. Build the release using npm run release:<stage>. Eg: npm run release:dev
2. Run npm run serve to start the server.
3. Go to http://localhost:8000/dist-test/test/SpecRunner.html in the browser to run tests that was built for the stage above.

Browsing the virtual file system

To view/edit the files in the browser virtual file system in Phoenix: debug menu> Open Virtual File System

Clean and reset builds

• clean builds only: npm run clean

Acknowledgements

• Phoenix is based on the Brackets code editor by Adobe. Find out more on Adobe Brackets here.
• Our main code editor library https://codemirror.net/
• Inspired by previous work from the Mozilla Thimble project to port brackets to the web. https://github.com/mozilla/brackets
• In browser server based on nohost by https://github.com/humphd/

License

GNU AGPL-3.0 License

Copyright (c) 2021 - present Core.ai Based on Backets, Copyright (c) 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated and the brackets.io community

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program 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 Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0.