Can I self-host the p5 editor in the same computer as my browser?

[josephh]

Hi @proxor,

Welcome to the forum!

There’s a lot of questions! Here are my answers:

@proxor

Does the p5 editor have both an edit and run window? (If not, never mind, stop here.)

Are you talking about separate browser windows? Or “windows” within the web page itself? If you are talking about browser windows, I don’t think there’s a way to preview your sketch in full screen without any code editor and toolbar…

@proxor

Is it able to Open and Save p5 programs from/to my client computer?

The p5 web editor was meant to be served from a web server therefore saving your sketches and assets on the “cloud” (using S3 and AWS I suppose). So you can’t open or save programs to your local computer (this is also limited by the browser and JavaScript API for security concerns). (see this for a desktop version)

@proxor

Is the p5 editor written in javascript? Is it a p5 program itself?

Yes, see the GitHub repository: GitHub - processing/p5.js-web-editor: p5.js Web Editor, officially launched!
(it’s 82% of JavaScript and uses the React front-end UI framework)

@proxor

Are all the server-side files for it available?

Do you mean the server side code or assets stored in the server?

@proxor

Is actual work done on the server (e.g. parsing to do highlighting, or saving on the server side) or does the server just serve static .js and resource files?

No, almost all the work is done in the client browser, the editor, p5js of course and assets and the code is stored server side. It serves static js / html / css but talks to the S3 storage and user account if any

@proxor

Are there instructions on how to run the p5 editor on a web server on my laptop (Mac Intel 64 bit, OS 13.6)?

See the contributor Deployment section. It should be better to install it with Docker (if you know it).

@proxor

Will it run with the little server that’s included in the p5 download?

Is there a server shipped with the p5 download?