For release 0.2, I will be working on Appmaker. It’s an app that makes apps, allowing anyone to create things without having to learn code.

It uses Polymer for building bricks which are basically components made up of web technologies like HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Getting Started

Appmaker has an excellent guide on how to contribute, it links to a tutorial that shows how bricks are built. There’s also a Brick Contribution Workshop page that walks through the brick building process.

Setting a developer instance

I just followed the readme.

If your on OS X then you can install mongodb with homebrew

brew update
brew install mongodb

I had trouble running mongod after installing since I didn’t have the /data/db folder.

sudo mkdir -p /data/db

Creating the folder still didn’t work since mongod didn’t have permission. This worked.

sudo chown `id -u` /data/db

After running mongod and starting the server with node app.

Hurray, time to start exploring.

http://localhost:5001/designer