Newbound is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building APIs, apps, and services in Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python and/or Flow. The software includes a local web service and a set of default apps that provide the core functionality, including P2P communication, security, encryption, data storage, app publishing and much more. Makers and developers can easily incorporate the Newbound software into their own apps and "smart-things" to extend their project's functionality with our easy to use API.
NOTE: Newbound was recently ported from Java to Rust, and the vast majority of support materials do not yet reflect the transition. Join our Discord Server for the latest news and support from the community!
Building Newbound requires Rust. To compile and execute from the Desktop, just clone or download this repository and run:
cargo run
By default, Newbound's support for JSON is limited. For full JSON support, enable the "serde_support" feature (recommended):
cargo run --features=serde_support
If you are writing commands in Rust, your changes will take effect when Newbound is restarted by default. To enable hot-swap of Rust commands, enable the "reload" feature:
cargo run --features=reload
If you are deploying an app (rather than developing one), you probably want to target release instead of debug (MUCH faster):
cargo run --release
Newbound back-end commands can be written in Java, Python, Rust, Javascript, or Flow. All languages maintain state between calls. If your flow code calls commands written in Java, Javascript, or Python they will fail unless you compile with the appropriate feature flag enabled. For example, with JavaScript:
cargo build --features=javascript_runtime