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 from command line
• Run the setup.sh script from ./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

On Windows

• Access the project folder from command line
• Run the setup.ps1 script from scripts\setup.ps1 (you must have rights to execute PowerShell scripts)
• If all goes well, it'll download pas2js to your %LocalAppData%\Programs\ folder
• The dev and dist scripts are ready to use this folder

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.ps1 (you must have rights to execute PoweShell scripts)
• access dev project in your browser on address http://localhost:3000
• 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.ps1
• access project on dist folder and upload to your server

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.