CloudPebble Portable

Simplified reincarnation of CloudPebble. Create, debug and package Pebble apps and watchfaces.

CloudPebble Portable is aiming to be small and self-contained. The application is distributed as a single executable based on redbean web server. The size is ~10MB at the moment, but in order to compile your watch app, it will need to download additional ~90MB archive, which unpacks to ~280MB (this is still quite small comparing to other options, e.g. available Docker images are almost 1GB compressed).

Status

Work in progress. Not ready yet.

• 🟢 Editing source files works: you can create, edit, rename, delete, etc.
• 🟢 Editing resources works
• 🟡 Code completion works partially:
  • 🔴 Code completion for C
  • 🟢 Code completion for JS
• 🟡 Compilation works partially:
  • 🟡 on Windows (via WSL and chroot)
    • 🟢 Pebble C SDK
    • 🟢 PebbleJS
    • 🔴 Pebble Package
    • 🔴 RockyJS
  • 🔴 on MacOS
  • 🔴 on Linux
• 🟡 Emulator works partially:
  • 🟢 on Windows (via WSL and chroot)
  • 🔴 on MacOS
  • 🔴 on Linux
• 🟢 Connection to phone works
• 🟢 Timeline UI (manual pin management and websync) works
• 🔴 Dependencies management UI not implemented yet
• 🟢 Project settings UI works

Usage

Download the cloudpebble-portable.com executable from Releases. Drop it into your watch app folder (i.e. where your appinfo.json or package.json resides) and run. The browser will pop up, showing CloudPebble interface.

Development

Run ./init.sh (one-time): it downloads redbean server and zip tool binaries from https://redbean.dev/ and puts them into base folder.

Run ./build.sh. It adds the source files into redbean executable. Result will appear in the dist folder.

Then you can put some Pebble watchapp or watchface project into the dist folder, cd there and run ./cloudpebble-portable.com.

I usually do cd dist and then ../build.sh && ./cloudpebble-portable.com from there. Then test it by navigating to http://localhost:8080. Then if we made some more changes and need to refresh, Ctrl+D and run same command again.