After knowing the features and benefits of Anypoint code builder in the previous blog Code Building Made Easy: Anypoint Code Builder, The new IDE from Mulesoft. – Mulearchitects, let’s start understanding the product as a whole.
Resources for Anypoint code builder resources – Mulearchitects
Important note
•ACB is still in Beta release
•Not immediately for production management
•Our objective is to evaluate ACB, and constantly give feedback to Mulesoft to make the product better
•Enable fellow developers on Industry-wide adoption
Flavors of ACB
ACB comes in two flavors.
Cloud IDE
Desktop IDE
Steps to use cloud IDE
•Create / Use an account in anypoint.mulesoft.com
•Organization admin should request access to use ACB
•Organization admin should accept the beta program terms and conditions
•Organization admin to grant access to users
•Create and Launch a new Cloud IDE instance
•Allow sign for the Extension Anypoint Code builder platform extension
•Start using the cloud IDE
Create Account with Anypoint
Opt to use Anypoint code builder
Accept terms and conditions.
Create and Launch ACB instance
Wait for ACB to prepare cloud IDE
First Glimpse of the Cloud IDE
Add Platform Extension to cloud IDE
SSO Login to anypoint platform
SSO Login done
Verify account linked with Visual Studio Code
ACB in Desktop
Steps to use desktop IDE
•Download the Visual Studio Code builder
•Install git
•Install anypoint code builder extension pack
Start using the ACB desktop
ACB product page
https://www.mulesoft.com/lp/dl/anypoint-mule-studio
Steps to follow for desktop IDE
Download Visual Studio code
https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Browse thru Visual Studio getting started pages
Verify download and start the installation
Accept license terms for Visual Studio Code
Set destination folder for installation
Finish the installation
First glimpse of Visual Studio Code
Its Visual Studio Code not ACB yet
Install Git – https://git-scm.com/downloads
Verify git
Browse to mule extensions page
•https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=salesforce.mule-dx-extension-pack
List of extensions with the pack
Install extension pack
Install the extension pack
Now it is the Visual Studio code with Anypoint Extensions
First Glimpse of ACB desktop
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