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Acre - Freebase's Application Hosting Platform
Acre is an application hosting platform designed to minimize the effort required to build web applications that make use of Freebase data, or create mashups with other web services.
Features include:
zero install: With a modern browser and a Freebase account, you can create, debug, deploy and manage web applications that will run on the Freebase server infrastructure.
Javascript based: Few web developers haven't had some experience with Javascript. With Acre, even if you aren't a Javascript pro, you can use your existing knowledge to build web applications that use Javascript on both client and server.
rich API: From URL fetching to OAuth support, from convenient Freebase API wrappers to native JSON parsing and serialization, from HTML parsing to jQuery-style selectors, Acre provides applications with a rich set of APIs to work with.
view-source ecosystem: We believe that "View Source" was a big part of the web's success from the very beginning. Acre makes it easy to look at existing source code and allows you to clone any existing app to use it as a starting point for your own.
advanced debugging: As Javascript developers, we are big fans of Firebug and know first hand how much great debugging tools simplify development. We tried to replicate many of Firebug's features in the Acre console, which make debugging your hosted apps easy. Acre also supports the FirePHP protocol, allowing you to use FirePHP to debug complicated HTTP flows in Ajax applications.
advanced editing environment: The Acre App Editor is your IDE for Acre development, providing you with syntax highlighting, code-completion, versioning, and a query editor to guide you through Freebase data.
code search: Looking at other people's source code is useful, but finding the right code can be a challenge. Acre provides code search specifically tuned for Acre scripts, templates and queries.
extensive documentation: Viewing the source of existing apps is great, but sometimes you need documentation. In addition to the API Reference you'll find here, be sure to explore the Acre pages on the Freebase Wiki.
