Orion (4.0)

A minimal, single-user deployment of Eclipse Orion. Orion provides an extensible IDE that runs in your browser. It's particularly good for writing Javascript.

For JazzHub and BlueMix

• You should be able to code this directly from the JazzHub project page and Launch it.
• Warning: Any files you create on the remote side will be deleted if your BlueMix instance is restarted.
• You can, however write a small program and run it right away from within Orionode.
• Or you can change the orion.conf workspace property to point to / and have a look around your instance file system in Orion
• Debugging does not work, the port is not exposed at BlueMix.

Features

• Basic file management
• Source code editing
• Install plugins to customize your environment
• Shell command for launching a node app (type help node in the Shell page to find out more)
• Shell command for supporting npm
• Client caching for static content
• Gzip
• Not on this version so you can edit Orionode Pages are concatenated and minified so they load faster

Usage

For full instructions, see the Getting Started guide.

Running the server

1. Run npm start orion or node [node_modules]/orion/server.js.
2. Go to localhost:8081 to use Orion. (You can change the port by passing the-p option).

Using Orion within a larger app

Use require('orion') to get access to our startServer function, which is suitable for use within a larger connect project:

var orion = require('orion');
var connect = require('connect');
var myapp = connect()
    .use(orion({ workspaceDir: '.myworkspace' }))
/* .use( additional handlers ) */

Running the tests

We use Mocha for our tests. Run npm test or mocha.

License

Dual-licensed under the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and the Eclipse Distribution License v1.0.