Development

To develop AMI based applications you do not need access to AIR repository nor internet connectivity.

Environment Preparation

1. install ami and eli
   • wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cryon-io/ami/master/install.sh -O /tmp/install.sh && sh /tmp/install.sh
2. prepare directories for layers you want to develop
   • Lets say you want to develop/improve etho.node and etho.binaries layers
   • Create directories for your layers e.g.: mkdir -p ~/ami/etho.binaries ~/ami/etho.node
3. create source mapping for ami - ~/ami/sources.hjson, for example:

    "etho.node": "~/ami/etho.node"
    "etho.binaries": "~/ami/etho.binaries"

4. Run ami with --local-sources (It is recommended to use trace log level for testing)
   • ami --local-source=~/ami/sources.hjson -ll=trace <command>

Notes

ami packages local source as zip and copies it into cache to provide closest experience to using AIR repository. This will pollute your cache and you should clean it from time to time - it wont cause any issue, but it will take some space.