I won’t be advertising here for CodeRunner 2, but it’s a great app! 😅
It’s a compromise between bloated IDEs and simple text editors. What’s the biggest advantage is that it supports a lot of different programming languages out of the box, so you can jump in and make something useful without fighting with additional dependencies etc. Don’t forget it’s a native app, so no more struggle with Electron 😜
I was willing to move all my non serious development stuff to Code Runner 2, but I’ve discovered it lacks a really important feature (at least for me…) - Command Line Interface.
If you’ve been missing it as well and waiting for creators to add it…
Wait no more! It’s here and written in nothing else, but Swift! 🙌
Requirements
This tool is for macOS only. To run it, make sure you have:
Swift 4.0 (SPM v4)
macOS 10.11 or higher
Git
Installing
To make it work you simply have to
$ git clone https://github.com/cojoj/CodeRunnerCLI.git
$ cd CodeRunnerCLI
$ swift build -c release -Xswiftc -static-stdlib
$ cp -f .build/release/CodeRunnerCLI /usr/local/bin/cr
Form now on you have a cr command line tool available for your user.
Usage
The most important feature of good code editing tool is possibility to open specific file or directory straight from you command line, because we’re all working with git and maybe some other tools accessible via terminal.
CodeRunnerCLI allow you to do so without any problem.
If you want to open Code Runner with file named script.swift, run:
$ cr swift.script
If you want to open Code Runner in newly created directory, simply run:
$ cr ~/path/to/some/dir/
CodeRunnerCLI is able to resolve paths correctly, so you can use things like ~/, . or ... We’re also taking care of existing files, so if you already have a file with this name in your file system, CodeRunnerCLI won’t override it, but will just open it for you 😉
Developing ⚒
As mentioned here and there, this project is a Swift application which uses SPM, so everything you’d normaly do with SPM project you can do with CodeRunnerCLI as well ✌️
If you’ve decided you want to contribute there are actually two ways of doing it:
If you’re planning to use the first option, just use command like swift build and swift test. Second option is more complicated as I’ve decided not to push .xcodeproj to this repository, so before you start anyting you’ll have to run swift package generate-xcodeproj and you’ll have to do it everytime you manipulate SPM. Developing in Xcode gives you a lot of nice features known from developing iOS/macOS apps.
CodeRunnerCLI
I won’t be advertising here for CodeRunner 2, but it’s a great app! 😅 It’s a compromise between bloated IDEs and simple text editors. What’s the biggest advantage is that it supports a lot of different programming languages out of the box, so you can jump in and make something useful without fighting with additional dependencies etc. Don’t forget it’s a native app, so no more struggle with Electron 😜
I was willing to move all my non serious development stuff to Code Runner 2, but I’ve discovered it lacks a really important feature (at least for me…) - Command Line Interface. If you’ve been missing it as well and waiting for creators to add it… Wait no more! It’s here and written in nothing else, but Swift! 🙌
Requirements
This tool is for macOS only. To run it, make sure you have:
Installing
To make it work you simply have to
Form now on you have a
crcommand line tool available for your user.Usage
The most important feature of good code editing tool is possibility to open specific file or directory straight from you command line, because we’re all working with
gitand maybe some other tools accessible via terminal. CodeRunnerCLI allow you to do so without any problem.If you want to open Code Runner with file named
script.swift, run:If you want to open Code Runner in newly created directory, simply run:
CodeRunnerCLI is able to resolve paths correctly, so you can use things like
~/,.or... We’re also taking care of existing files, so if you already have a file with this name in your file system, CodeRunnerCLI won’t override it, but will just open it for you 😉Developing ⚒
As mentioned here and there, this project is a Swift application which uses SPM, so everything you’d normaly do with SPM project you can do with CodeRunnerCLI as well ✌️
If you’ve decided you want to contribute there are actually two ways of doing it:
.xcodeprojfiles)If you’re planning to use the first option, just use command like
swift buildandswift test. Second option is more complicated as I’ve decided not to push.xcodeprojto this repository, so before you start anyting you’ll have to runswift package generate-xcodeprojand you’ll have to do it everytime you manipulate SPM. Developing in Xcode gives you a lot of nice features known from developing iOS/macOS apps.Everything else