jxc - jxcore-cordova installer helper

[ktrzeciaknubisa]

I've created a jxc helper module for installing jxcore-cordova and managing samples.
Primarily this was for my dev needs, but I thought I can share with others, who might find it useful.

$ jxc install --sample express_perf

This single command makes the jxcore-cordova plugin:

• downloaded
• unpacked
• added to the project
• sample/express_perf is used (plus jx install performed for the sample)

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Note: to have jxc command available first install the module globally:

$ jx install -g jxc

[obastemur]

why don't you make this available on npm ? and document on README of jxcore-cordova?

[cdynak]

jxc is very nice as dev tool, but i think that the main goal should be to follow cordova plugins publishing standard described here: http://cordova.apache.org/plugins/authors.html

applying this will make work the most known and user friendly way of installing plugins:

$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-jxcore

it will be also visible in official cordova plugin search: http://cordova.apache.org/plugins/

also jxcore userbase could then increase a lot.

[ktrzeciaknubisa]

@cdynak I like this idea.

[ktrzeciaknubisa]

@cdynak NPM repository may have problems with large packages. They were advising to use max to 10MB package sizes: npm/npm#4738 (comment). We have almost 10 times more in jxcore-cordova.

Until we resolve how to efficiently add jxcore-cordova large binaries to the npm package (maybe hosted on other server), you may use updated jxc:

• binaries are downloaded from other server than github (it was problematic with large files)
• better progress download display
• option to cache downloaded files

We're going to put jxc to npm, after some more tests and user updates.

[cdynak]

i've been thinking, that it would be not that easy...
for me jxc is even more useful than using plugins standard, because it supports samples managing. the main idea was just to "follow standard" and promote jxcore.

[ktrzeciaknubisa]

The jxc tool went public and is available from npm repository. It also works with node (JXcore doesn't need to be installed), so both of the following will work:

$ npm install jxc
$ jx install jxc

And it works on Windows, too.

[obastemur]

did we document this on README ?

[ktrzeciaknubisa]

Not yet :)

[ktrzeciaknubisa]

Documented.

Also, for Visual Studio usage there is jxc download command which only downloads the plugin (in contrast to jxc install which also add it to the cordova app).