Installing AppBuilder

Prerequisites

• You must have the latest version of the Google Chrome browser, or Apple Safari installed.
• AppBuilder is packaged using the NodeJS package module. Therefore, you must install NodeJS onto your workstation to run AppBuilder:
  1. Download the NodeJS installer for your system from http://nodejs.org/download/.
  2. Run the NodeJS installer, and follow the prompts in the Install Wizard.
  3. Verify that the node.js folder is in your System Environment PATH.
  4. Open a command prompt, and enter npm to verify the NodeJS package manager is installed properly.
• If you are using a proxy server you must configure npm. At the command prompt or terminal window (on Mac), enter:

  npm config set proxy  <proxy server:port>
  npm config set https-proxy <proxy server:port>

• If you use a web proxy to connect to the Internet or consume OData services from the Internet, you must set the proxy host and port in the ide.json file as discussed in Setting Up the Development Environment.

Installing AppBuilder on Windows

1. Extract the appbuilder-1.0.zip file to the directory of your choice.
2. From the directory where you extracted the contents of the zip file, double-click the run.bat file to launch AppBuilder.
3. AppBuilder opens in a browser with the URL: http://127.0.0.1:9009/ide/ares/index.html.

Installing AppBuilder on Mac

1. Extract the appbuilder-1.0.zip file to the directory of your choice.
2. Open Terminal.
3. Change to the directory where you extracted the zip file.
4. Enter chmod +x *.sh at the prompt to grant execute permissions to the AppBuilder start shell scripts.
5. Enter ./run.sh at the prompt to launch AppBuilder.
6. AppBuilder opens in a browser with the URL: http://127.0.0.1:9009/ide/ares/index.html.