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- You can inline Javascript code and there are many ways to interact between Amber and Javascript
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-Getting Amber
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+Prerequisites
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Amber is shipped as a cli tool to create new projects and assist with development tasks in a [npm](http://npmjs.org) package `amber-cli`
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and as a library to be used by projects in a [bower](https://github.com/bower/bower) package `amber`.
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-Do this [1] to create an Amber project of your own and start working in it:
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+For the installation to work, you need to have installed `node`, `npm` and `git` (in Windows, use Git for Windows and select "Run Git from Windows Command Prompt" and "Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style" installation options).
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+For UNIX-based OS (Linux distibutions, FreeBSD, ...) do
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+ npm config set prefix=~/npm
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+ export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/npm/bin"
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+to have the installation in a local subdirectory in order to avoid the otherwise necessary ``sudo`` installation of Amber. The export line needs to be added to the ~/.profile file as well so that after a new login the path is set.
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+Getting Amber and setting up an initial project
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+Do this to install Amber
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# Install the CLI tool `amber-cli` and supporting tools
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npm install -g amber-cli bower grunt-cli
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+Use ``amber init`` to create a project of your own
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# Initialize your project (directory must be empty)
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cd /path/to/myproject
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amber init
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@@ -53,12 +70,12 @@ Do this [1] to create an Amber project of your own and start working in it:
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bower install amber-compat-es5 --save # be loadable in older browsers
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bower install amber-compat-ie8 --save # additional tweaks to load in IE8
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+Start developing in Amber Smalltalk
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# Serve amber on localhost:4000
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amber serve
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-The [Getting started](https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/Getting-started) page shows more details on ways to obtain Amber and start a project.
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-[1] For installation to work, you need to install `node`, `npm` and `git` (in Windows, use Git for Windows and select "Run Git from Windows Command Prompt" and "Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style" installation options).
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