Before You Begin

This 10-minute tutorial shows you how to configure your Windows 10 computer to develop Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (Oracle JET) hybrid mobile applications that can be built as Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. This requires you to enable Developer Mode on your Windows 10 computer and to install an edition of Visual Studio 2017, an integrated development environment from Microsoft.

Background

The Oracle JET command-line interface invokes the Windows SDK that you install with Visual Studio 2017 to build a UWP application from the source files of your Oracle JET hybrid mobile application. This application is then installed on your Windows 10 computer.

What Do You Need?

• A Windows 10 computer

Enable Developer Mode on Windows 10

Developer mode allows you to install any signed and trusted apps to your Windows 10 computer, whereas the default Windows 10 setting only permits the installation of apps from the Microsoft Store.

1. Click the Start button and enter For developers in the Type here to search input field, then select For developers settings from the Best match list that appears.
2. From the For developers settings dialog, choose Developer mode.
3. Read the disclaimer in the dialog that appears and click Yes to accept the change.
   If your computer is owned by an organization, some options might be disabled. Contact your system administrator to enable Developer mode in this scenario.

   

Install Visual Studio 2017

Install Visual Studio as it includes the Windows 10 SDK and the Universal Windows App Development Tools that you require to develop and deploy an Oracle JET hybrid mobile application on your computer.

1. Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/ and download the Community edition of Visual Studio 2017.

Microsoft offers Community, Professional, and Enterprise editions of Visual Studio 2017. The Visual Studio Community edition is a free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source, and individual developers.

2. During installation, select the Universal Windows Platform development workload.

   

3. Once you have downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2017, run it so that it completes the necessary set up tasks.

Create a System Environment Variable to Reference MSBuild Tools

After you install Visual Studio 2017, create a system environment variable (MSBUILDDIR) that references the location of the MSBuild Tools within the Visual Studio 2017 installation.

1. Click the Start button and enter Edit the system environment variables in the Type here to search input field, then select it from the Best match list that appears.
2. In the System Properties dialog that opens, click Environment Variables, then click New in the System variables section of the Environment Variables dialog.
3. In the Variable name field, enter MSBUILDDIR, and in the Variable value field, enter the directory location of the MSBuild Tools which is typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\15.0\Bin in a default Visual Studio 2017 installation.
4. Click OK to close the open dialogs.