Even if you plan to use mason only in the browser, you'll still need to install node.js.

To test out your node installation, try running this:

mkdir test; cd test
sudo npm install -g mason-lang/mason-cli
npm install amdefine mason-lang/msl
echo 'console.log "hello world!"' > hello.ms
mason run hello.ms

mason-cli is good for scripts, and will compile any other .ms files you import, but for projects you should use a build tool.

Mason does not come with a build tool. But it works with many:

• gulp-mason recommended
• broccoli-mason
• jstransformer-mason for dum, a build tool written in Mason

The build tools all use the same options:

Path to msl. You'll want to set this to msl/lib, but it defaults to msl.

So annoying... This option will go away soon.

This defaults to \t. You can set it to 2 or 4 (or any other number) to use that many spaces for indentation.

Currently this can only be 'english'.

Mason syntaxes exist for these text editors:

• mason-atom for atom
• mason-tmLanguage for sublime, vscode, and textmate