Getting started

Are you ready to develop an app for ArcOS? Great! I can't wait to guide you through the process. We'll first get your system ready, next we'll create the ArcOS Project, we'll connect ArcOS to that project for live development, then we'll develop an app and call it done by building it and try installing it.

A note about AI

ArcOS' internal systems are custom made for the purposes of the operating system. The short of it is that AI has no idea where stuff is inside the ArcOS codebase, even if you upload your arcos.d.ts file. Please, instead of writing apps with AI, which makes them harder to debug and harder to read, write the code yourself. If you can't, then stop here and don't continue at all. I loathe AI with all my power to the point of not wanting to verify apps that contain AI generated code, even though I must as per the policies.

AI has already infected the world. Do you really want it to infect ArcOS aswell?

Prerequisites

Before you can run the ArcOS v7 CLI, you'll need to prepare your system first. The CLI is compatible with both Windows and Linux (64-bit only), but MacOS may work as well, though that hasn't been tested (tell me about your experience if you do try it on MacOS!). For v7cli , you'll need:

• A chromium-based browser like Chrome or Brave (optional). Firefox has some problems, safari remains untested (I'm not a Mac user, sorry).

• An ArcOS account ready to go on https://v7.izkuipers.nl

• Visual Studio Code or any other modern IDE (Code is known to work with the CLI)

• NodeJS, version 20 or higher

• Git (optional, yet handy for source control)

• Good vibes 😎