Building Brackets Releases

(work in progress)

Introduction

This page documents build steps for Brackets that are typically only run on the build servers when building finished installers. To modify Brackets locally and submit pull requests, simply follow the How to Hack on Brackets instructions instead.

Prerequisites

• Git command line tools - follow the setup instructions on GitHub or download here
• Local copy of Brackets repo - see How to Hack on Brackets
• Build brackets-shell locally - the hacking instructions above outline how to point an existing shell, usually from the most recent stable release - but when building a new release, no such download exists yet.
• Node.js 0.8.x or newer
• Grunt
  • Run Grunt set-up steps
• Run npm install at the root of the Brackets repository

Build

Run grunt build to compile the Brackets src tree to the dist folder.

To test this build, just open a copy of brackets-shell that hasn't been "setup for hacking" or hold down the shift key as you open Brackets so that it prompts you for the location of the index.html file. Select dist/index.html and you will use the minified copy.

Usage

After a successful build, ...