Desktop application for development and deployment Pond consists of the following runtime components:

• assets - images, JavaScript files, CSS files
• binary assets - this includes PHP binaries for Mac and Windows
• Electron runs the desktop client, top level of the execution
• Chromium browser - is run by Electron and represents the interactive layer of the application
• Node.js is a top-level runtime environment, it's ran by Chromium
• Vue.js and Vuex.js render the HTML and manage the application runtime data state
• Built-in PHP server runs Pond projects, which chose to use the built-in server, and also runs PHP Deployer when the application is in the runtime mode (for the development needs we use Target server dev environment for running the Deployer)
• Pouch DB used as a persistent data storage
• Pond Agent is a special October plugin that Pond installs to configure a local project.

Note: all commands should be ran in the root directory, which contains the app subdirectory.

Prerequisites: node.js of version at lest 8.x is required for running unit tests. I used the version 6.x successfully for the development, but had to upgrade to run mocha tests.

In the root Pond directory run:

• npm install

• npm run watch

This will be updating assets in app/dist in live mode. It could take ~15 seconds to load first, but subsequent updates take milliseconds.

After that, in another terminal tab, start Electron:

• npm run start