Developers: RIM has Published BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Framework Code on GitHub

RIM has made significant progress with the WebWorks platform. WebWorks is pretty solid development platform on the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now RIM has published BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Framework Code on GitHub to developers by making things more useful and easier using the new BB10 framework.

BBX-Framework Setup

For Mac:

Install Ripple
git clone https://github.com/blackberry-webworks/BBX-Framework.git
cd BBX-Framework
git checkout next
./configure (sudo ./configure if you get permission errors)
cd BBX-Framework\dependencies\BBX-Emulator
Start emulator server on port 8472 with: jake
Send a command to start Ripple with: curl http://localhost:8472/webview/create
Check that Ripple starts up.
cd back to BBX-Framework
Run ‘jake test’ and check that jake runs and completes

For Windows:

Install Ripple
Follow npm install instructions:http://npmjs.org/doc/README.html#Installing-on-Windows-Experimental
Install the latest node.exe for Windows (Currently 0.5.10):http://nodejs.org/#download
git clone https://github.com/blackberry-webworks/BBX-Framework.git
cd BBX-Framework
git checkout next
Run configure.bat (If you have trouble with npm install express, get it from here: git clone http://git.rim.net/rcruz/BBX-Framework.git )
Open git shell, navigate to BBX-Framework and run: git submodule update –init
Run the unit tests: jake test