Building Brackets Releases

(work in progress)

Introduction

This page documents build steps for Brackets that are typically only run on the build servers when building finished installers. To modify Brackets locally and submit pull requests, simply follow the How to Hack on Brackets instructions instead.

Prerequisites

• Git command line tools - follow the setup instructions on GitHub or download here
• Local copy of Brackets repo - see How to Hack on Brackets
• Build brackets-shell locally - the hacking instructions above outline how to point an existing shell, usually from the most recent stable release - but when building a new release, no such download exists yet.
• Node.js 0.8.x or newer
• Grunt
  • Run Grunt set-up steps
• Run npm install at the root of the Brackets repository

Build

Run grunt build to compile the Brackets src tree to the dist folder.

Usage

After a successful build, ...