Getting Started

The starting point of any Hot application is the hot command line tool provided with the Hot binary distribution.

To start programming with Hot, just follow these steps:

1. Download the Hot distribution here
2. Untar it somewhere on your hard drive
3. Add the following entry to your.profile file export PATH=</path/to/hot/distribution>/bin:$PATH
4. Have fun!

Now you are ready to start you first Hot project

Creating a project

To create a project just enter the following command

hot create -n myproject

You now have a folder called myprojectwith the following directory structure:

+myproject
|\-www
|\-shows

to start your app, just tap

 hot run

open you favourite web browser and go to http://locahost:8080

The www directory

the wwwdirectory is where you can put all your static web resources and assets. Each asset is exposed by the Hot web server.

The show directory

This folder is where you put the showscripts (see here)