The Quartex IDE supports a variety of project types, and will in the future have many more.

As of writing the IDE 'knows' about the following project types;


  • Library
  • Visual project
  • Node project
  • Cluster project (not yet implemented)


The IDE only needs to know the type of project you are working with to make distinctions of what is allowed. A visual application is allowed to add and have forms, and node applications should not be executed by the browser. Those kinds of distinctions.


Above: The project types the IDE "recognize" defines how the IDE should behave, and what can be added (e.g forms, windows etc).


When it comes to visual applications and their behavior this is further refined through the application model.