remix-project/apps/remix-ide

Remix

Remix is a browser-based compiler and IDE that enables users to build Ethereum contracts with Solidity language and to debug transactions.

To try it out, visit https://remix.ethereum.org.

https://github.com/ethereum/remix-ide/releases also gives others ways to use Remix locally. Please check it out.

Remix consists of many modules and in this repository you will find the Remix IDE (aka. Browser-Solidity).

Offline Usage

The gh-pages branch has always the latest stable build of Remix. It also contains a ZIP file with the entire build. Download it to use offline.

Note: It contains the latest release of Solidity available at the time of the packaging. No other compiler versions are supported.

INSTALLATION:

Install npm and node.js (see https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node), then do:

Remix-ide has been published as an npm module:

yarn global add remix-ide
remix-ide

Or if you want to clone the github repository (wget need to be installed first) :

git clone https://github.com/ethereum/remix-ide.git
git clone https://github.com/ethereum/remix.git # only if you plan to link remix and remix-ide repositories and develop on it.

cd remix  # only if you plan to link remix and remix-ide repositories and develop on it.
yarn install  # only if you plan to link remix and remix-ide repositories and develop on it.
yarn run bootstrap  # only if you plan to link remix and remix-ide repositories and develop on it.

cd remix-ide
yarn install
yarn run setupremix  # only if you plan to link remix and remix-ide repositories and develop on it.
npm start

Docker:

Prerequisites:

• Docker (https://docs.docker.com/desktop/)
• Docker-compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)

Run with docker

If you want to run latest changes that are merged into master branch then run:

docker pull remixproject/remix-ide:latest
docker run -p 8080:80 remixproject/remix-ide:latest

If you want to run latest remix-live release run.

docker pull remixproject/remix-ide:remix_live
docker run -p 8080:80 remixproject/remix-ide:remix_live

Run with docker-compose:

To run locally without building you only need docker-compose.yaml file and you can run:

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

Then go to http://localhost:8080 and you can use you Remix instance.

To fetch docker-compose file without cloning this repo run:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethereum/remix-ide/master/docker-compose.yaml > docker-compose.yaml

DEVELOPING:

Run npm start and open http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser.

Then open your text editor and start developing. The browser will automatically refresh when files are saved.

Most of the the time working with other modules (like debugger etc.) hosted in the Remix repository is not needed.

Troubleshooting building

Some things to consider if you have trouble building the package:

• Make sure that you have the correct version of node, npm and nvm. You can find the version that is tested on Travis CI by looking at the log in the build results.

Run:

node --version
npm --version
nvm --version

• In Debian based OS such as Ubuntu 14.04LTS you may need to run apt-get install build-essential. After installing build-essential run npm rebuild.

Unit Testing

Register new unit test files in test/index.js. The tests are written using tape.

Run the unit tests via: yarn test

For local headless browser tests run yarn run test-browser (requires Selenium to be installed - can be done with yarn run selenium-install)

Running unit tests via yarn test requires at least node v7.0.0

Browser Testing

To run the Selenium tests via Nightwatch:

• Build Remix IDE and serve it: yarn run build && yarn run serve # starts web server at localhost:8080

• Make sure Selenium is installed yarn run selenium-install # don't need to repeat

• Run a selenium server yarn run selenium

• Run all the tests yarn run nightwatch_local_firefox or yarn run nightwatch_local_chrome

• Or run a specific test case:

   - yarn run nightwatch_local_ballot
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_libraryDeployment
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_solidityImport
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_recorder
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_transactionExecution
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_staticAnalysis
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_signingMessage
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_console
  
   - yarn run nightwatch_local_remixd # remixd needs to be run
  

NOTE:

• the ballot tests suite requires to run ganache-cli locally.

• the remixd tests suite requires to run remixd locally.

• the gist tests suite requires specifying a github access token in .env file.

    gist_token = <token>

note that this token should have permission to create a gist.

Usage as a Chrome Extension

If you would like to use this as a Chrome extension, you must either build it first or pull from the gh-pages branch, both described above. After that, follow these steps:

• Browse to chrome://extensions/
• Make sure 'Developer mode' has been checked
• Click 'Load unpacked extension...' to pop up a file-selection dialog
• Select your remix-ide folder

Documentation

To see details about how to use Remix for developing and/or debugging Solidity contracts, please see our documentation page