iOS App Development with PhoneGap and Spine Mobile: Setup

You need to setup your development environment. 


Since I'm targeting iOS I'm obviously using a Mac with OSX Lion and Xcode 4.2. You can find help with installing Xcode at developer.apple.com. Done? Good.

Here's a summary of the setup. The various web sites have more details.

Install Homebrew
If you're familiar with Linux's apt-get you'll love Homebrew. Simplifies installation and update of the Unix-y bits and bytes for OS X. Homebrew installs to the user's local space so sudo isn't required.

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"

Install node.js via brew

$ brew install node

Install npm
For some reason, npm has been removed from brew. Use curl to download and install it.

$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Install Spine, Spine.app, and Hem via npm


$ npm install -g spine spine.app hem