PraxisLIVE - a hybrid visual live programming IDE, rethinking general purpose and creative coding.
PraxisLIVE is built around PraxisCORE, a modular JVM runtime for cyberphysical programming, supporting real-time coding of real-time systems. With a distributed forest-of-actors architecture, runtime code changes and comprehensive introspection, PraxisCORE brings aspects of Erlang, Smalltalk and Extempore into the Java world ... a powerful platform for media processing, data visualisation, sensors, robotics, IoT, and lots more!
PraxisLIVE and PraxisCORE are open-source projects developed by Neil C Smith, and now supported by Codelerity Ltd..
See www.praxislive.org for more information and downloads.
There is also an online manual at https://docs.praxislive.org
For general support or to discuss usage and development of PraxisLIVE, please check out the Community page for links to our mailing list, online chat, etc.
Please report bugs or make specific feature requests on the issue queue if possible.
PraxisCORE v6.x (runtime) is released under the terms of the LGPLv3, and free to use in open-source and commercial projects.
The PraxisLIVE IDE is released under the terms of the GPLv3 - see license for more details.
Contributions are always welcome.
An easy way to contribute to PraxisLIVE code is by making custom components for the additional components repository. Pull requests gratefully received! Eventually, these components may make it into the core distribution.
You can also get involved with building the main projects themselves - see information below.
However, you don't have to contribute code to make a huge difference. Make examples, help with documentation, assist new users, spread the word, make amazing things!
To build PraxisLIVE you'll need a JDK (21+). The build uses Maven. The source includes the Maven wrapper script, which will automatically download and execute the right version of Maven for you.
If you need to checkout the PraxisLIVE source code, use -
git clone https://github.com/praxis-live/praxis-live.git
If you're building a released version of PraxisLIVE, the build will automatically download the PraxisCORE dependencies. You can skip ahead to the PraxisLIVE build. If you're building a development (snapshot) version you will need to download, build and install the matching version of PraxisCORE.
To build PraxisCORE, first checkout the PraxisCORE sources.
git clone https://github.com/praxis-live/praxiscore.git
Then from inside the praxiscore directory, execute -
./mvnw clean install
Installation of snapshot versions of PraxisCORE is required for them to be picked up by the PraxisLIVE IDE build.
To build the PraxisLIVE IDE, execute the build from within the praxis-live directory.
./mvnw clean package
A zip of the IDE will be created inside application/target/. You can also test the application
via Maven using -
./mvnw -f application/ nbm:run-platform
PraxisLIVE is built on top of the Apache NetBeans platform and IDE. The build scripts will download Apache NetBeans dependencies. The first build might take more time as it downloads and caches the necessary dependencies.