Running Eve

If you’ve downloaded and installed Eve via npm, you can launch Eve with the eve command.

eve

This launches an Eve server running in the Eve root directory at http://localhost:8080. From here, you’ll be directed to quickstart.eve, and have access to the Eve examples directory from within the editor.

Running an Eve File

If you want to run a specific Eve program, you can provide its path after the eve command:

eve ~/myDir/myEveFile.eve

Then you navigate to Eve in your browser to access the specified program. If you like, you can also recover the editor with a flag:

eve ~/myEveDir/myEveFile.eve --editor

This will run the supplied Eve program with the editor visible

Running Eve in Server mode

Eve can be started in server mode using the --server flag:

eve --server

Without this flag, execution of Eve programs happens within the browser, with the Eve server acting only as a file server between the browser and your local system. In server mode, Eve will instead execute your program on the server. Currently written programs will operate exactly as before, but this is a preliminary step in order to get networked Eve applications going (like a chat server or a multiplayer game). There is still work needed to be done there

Eve Workspaces

You can run Eve in a custom workspace. To create a new Eve workspace, create a folder with an empty file named package.json, then start Eve from within this folder. Eve recognizes that it is starting an Eve workspace, and will serve *.eve files from within this directory instead of the Eve examples folder. Furthermore, you can serve various assets, like images or CSS, by placing them in an “assets” sub-folder.

Flags

server - run Eve in server execution mode.
editor - run Eve with the editor visible. This defaults to false, except when Eve is started in an Eve project folder.
port - specify the port on which to run the Eve server. Alternatively, the running port can be specified with the PORT environment variable, which takes precedence over the port flag.

Running Eve from Source

To run Eve from source, you invoke the following command in the extracted Eve folder:

npm start

You can apply the above flags to this command, but you’ll need an extra -- to do so. e.g.