Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview

Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview by mox1 on Monday May 12, 2014 @03:45PM (#7734986)

This is awesome on multiple levels, but mainly it unchains the "cloud" from Cross Platform app development. Everything but vanilla Apache Cordova (Intel App Framework / AppMobi, PhoneGap, Xamrian) insist on compiling your code on their servers. The effect is they take away a lot of control from the programmer.

If you insist on plain old Cordova, you end up with a text editor (Notepad++), with a cmd.exe window (for cordova/ node.js) and Chrome (for ripple, the Debug env). It will be really nice to get all of this into an IDE.

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Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview by cfjedimaster on Monday May 12, 2014 @05:13PM (#7735446)

You can also debug with Safari Remote Debug and Chrome Remote Debug. Ripple is nice, but you aren't limited to it.

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Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview by andwaal on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @01:16AM (#7736665)

Genymotion should also be mentioned, realy speeds up device testing.

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Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview by henderson101 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @08:08AM (#7737685)

Device testing, or VM testing? Genymotion is not a real device. For a start, IIRC it uses an x86 processor in the emulation.

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Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview by andwaal on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @09:11AM (#7737930)

I rephrase myself. For testing the parts of the Corodva Api that access native device function.

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Re:Visual Studio Apache Cordova Tooling preview by andwaal on Monday May 12, 2014 @04:38PM (#7735286)

Switch Notepad++ with Webstorm and you got my Corodva stack ;)

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