CocosBuilder - Run Cocos2d JS projects in browser

[vlidholt]

Add a menu option to run a project directly in the web browser.

• This includes, publishing to HTML5 (already done)
• Running a web-server at some local port
• Opening a web browser (possibly configurable which one, or selecting from a sub menu) with the correct local address to the published files

[vlidholt]

Some more notes on how to implement this:

• There can be different approaches to running the web server, either using some Cocoa library (e.g. https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaHTTPServer or something like it) or by running an external command line tool that is bundled inside CocosBuilder.
• I think that the best way would probably be to start the server when CocosBuilder starts and shut it down when CocosBuilder quits.
• It is very important that only the Published-HTML5 folder of the current project is accessible from the web server so that we do not cause any security issues. When opening a project, the server should be updated to point to the published directory. It should not crash if the directory is missing. (It may be an option to start the server when a project opens and shut down when a project closes, if that is easier to implement.)
• Add a Run in Browser command in the File menu. This should have a sub menu of different browser. This sub menu could have the following options: "Run in Last Selected Browser" (with a keyboard short cut), "Run in Safari", "Run in Firefox", "Run in Chrome".
• The different run commands simply opens the correct url in the correct browser

[ricardoquesada]

in the near/mid term future, CocosBuilder should do the following:

$ cocos2d run --publish --target html5

And that will publish the assets for html5 and run it on a web-browser. A local server will be instantiated automatically.

[vlidholt]

Completed!