Google Coder Web Development on the RasPi

"Coder is a free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web." Coder runs as a Node.JS application on the Pi, and provides a web service which both host web applicaitons and an editor for the HTML, CSS, Javascript, and NodeJS (Javascript on the server side) files that make up the application. It also uploads and manages images or other "media" to use in the application. The user interface is intuitive and clean.

Hitting "http://coder.local/ " may not work from Windows PC's. Instead, just hit the RasPi's IP address. If you have changed the ports, remember to include the new port. E.g. https://192.168.0.161:8081

Be very patient after entering your password and clicking "Let's code"... It takes /forever/ and will appear that nothing is working, then suddenly it will come up.

https://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder-projects/ is a great starting point.

See also:

• http://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder/ Main web page, redirect from
  http://goo.gl/coder
• https://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder-projects/ Projects that build, step by step, showing you how to usee coder.
• http://pi.gadgetoid.com/article/running-google-coder-on-your-existing-raspberry-pi-or-desktop-pc
  On an existing Ras Pi install:

  sudo apt-get install nodejs npm git
  git clone https://github.com/googlecreativelab/coder
  cd coder/coder-base/
  npm install
  

  Except that the version of nodejs has changed and it will not install cleanly. If you can get it running by installing missing dependancies, you can start coder with
  nodejs server.js
  The first time you start it, you may need sudo nodejs server.js so that you can save the password.
  
  If you have a web server (other than coder) running on the Pi, edit the coder/coder-base/config.js file to change the ports.

• https://github.com/googlecreativelab/coder Source
• https://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder-projects/projects/blinky_lights/ Project that shows how to access the IO pins on the Pi from a google coder project. If you get an error about gpio not being found, log into the raspi and
  cd coder-base/node_modules
  npm install gpio
  If you make an error in the NODE file, you won't be able to launch the app to get to the </> button to edit. No worries, just go to /app/editor/edit/blinky_lights
• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/653230/Raspberry-Pi-Episode-Get-Coding-With-Coder Todo list application.
• https://jsfiddle.net/ very nice hosting and editing site, allows you to write js, html, css in your browser and see the result, then save, share, collaborate. Like Google Coder without the backend.

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