remix-ide

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Remix

This repository contain only Remix’s official Read the Docs documentation source code. Documentation is available here.

Remix Project Codebases

Remix Docs (this repo)

Remix IDE

Remix About page

About Remix Project

Remix Project is a platform for development tools that use a plugin architecture. It encompasses sub-projects including Remix Plugin Engine, Remix Libraries, and of course Remix IDE.

Remix IDE is an open source web and desktop application. It fosters a fast development cycle and has a rich set of plugins with intuitive GUIs. Remix is used for the entire journey of contract development with Solidity language as well as a playground for learning and teaching Ethereum.

Start developing using Remix on browser, visit: https://remix.ethereum.org

For desktop version, see releases: https://github.com/ethereum/remix-desktop/releases

Remix libraries work as a core of native plugins of Remix IDE. Read more about libraries here

Remix screenshot

Build

Steps to build this project are as follows:

First, you need to set up a Python virtual environment. This is a self-contained environment where you can install Python packages without interfering with your system’s Python installation. Here’s how you can create and activate a Python virtual environment:

# Create a virtual environment
# By placing in `.vscode` these will be git ignored, and not committed
python3 -m venv .vscode/venv

# Activate the virtual environment
# On Windows:
.vscode\venv\Scripts\activate

# On Unix or MacOS:
source venv/bin/activate

Once the virtual environment is activated, you can install the necessary Python packages:

pip3 install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
pip3 install myst-parser

Then, you can clone the repository and build the project:

git clone https://github.com/ethereum/remix-ide.git
cd remix-ide/docs/ # into /docs subfolder
make html

Go to docs/_build/html and start a Python HTTP server to serve the HTML files:

cd _build/html
python3 -m http.server

View by visiting http://localhost:8000 in your web browser.

When you’re done, you can deactivate the virtual environment:

deactivate

Contributing

We wholeheartedly welcome everyone to contribute. Suggestions, issues, queries and feedback are our pleasure. Please join our Discord server.

Translating

The site is internationalized. Do not make any corrections to .po or .pot files. These get handled in our translation management platform Crowdin. To help with the translation of our documentation, please visit https://crowdin.com/project/remix-translation. To help with our translations of Remix’s UI, please visit https://crowdin.com/project/remix-ui.

Custom theming

The documentation is built using Sphinx and the Read the Docs theme as a base. The theme has been customized using CSS overrides and JavaScript to built on top of the base theme.

conf.py

html_js_files = [
    "js/constants.js",
    "js/utils.js",
    "js/loaders.js",
    "js/initialize.js"
]

html_css_files = ["css/fonts.css", "css/tokens.css", "css/custom.css"]

These js and css files are been declared to run once the initial theming has been applied.

File (docs/_static/) Description
constants.js Contains all JavaScript constants to be used throughout the other scripts.
utils.js Contains all utility/helper functions to be used throughout the other scripts.
loaders.js Contains primary logic for all the loading scripts, organized by initialize.js.
initialize.js Contains high-level script logic. Declares order of loader.js functions to be run during onDOMContentLoaded (immediately after the initial DOM content has been loaded)
css/fonts.css Contains all font imports and declarations.
css/tokens.css Contains all CSS theming variables and tokens used throughout the other CSS files.
css/custom.css Contains all custom CSS overrides and theming. This uses existing CSS selectors from the Sphinx theming to select and override various styling.