The Common Canvas tooling consists of two Node JS modules:

1. A Common Canvas for use in building canvas-like applications. See detailed API and event documentation.

2. Test harness
   See here for setting up local environment

Clone elyra/canvas

git clone [email protected]:elyra-ai/canvas.git
# install global libraries for building
npm install -g grunt-cli sass
# Build common-canvas and common-properties
./<elyra/canvas>/canvas_modules/common-canvas/build.sh

In your application's package.json replace

"@elyra/canvas": "<version>"

with

"@elyra/canvas": "file:<elyra/canvas>/canvas_modules/common-canvas"

Delete @elyra/canvas from node_modules of your application

# Run npm install to get local copy of common-canvas and/or common-properties
npm install

1. Python v3 needs to be available.

2. Go to canvas directory.

3. Install required mkdocs packages using pip3.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt`

4. Run below command to start mkdocs server.

mkdocs serve

5. When complete, open the browser: http://127.0.0.1:8000/