You can build the editor in two different environments: for development and for production. For development you can run a local web server that will build and reload automatically the application for each new modification on the project. The production mode builds and package the editor for different platforms.
To run the editor you will need the following softwares:
required for everything:
if you want to run/build the desktop version:
Before building, you need to install some 3rd-party libraries. You need to run in console the following commands:
npm install
and:
bower install
The former installs a bunch of NodeJS modules, which are used on the building system and some dependences of the desktop application. The last installs CSS and Javascript vendor libraries.
During development you can run the editor in a web browser with automatically building and reloading:
gulp serve
which will run a web server hosted on http://127.0.0.1:8000.
To run the desktop version (without automatically building and reload):
gulp nw
Just run:
gulp dist