1. Install NetBeans 8.x
  2. In NetBeans, create a new HTML5/JavaScript project (Application)
  3. Call the project RIF4 (for example)
  4. Do not use a site template
  5. Uncheck all the tools options and click finish

  6. Download the RIF ZIP from GitHub

  7. Find the project folder for your new NetBeans project created above
  8. Copy the RIF content: rifWebApplication/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF into public_html

  9. To sync your edits to GitHub you will have to manually copy-paste from the local NetBeans project folder to your RIF repository each time you want to make commits

  10. To debug in Chrome, you will need to add the CORS Allow-Control-Allow-Origin (Important!) and NetBeans Connector extensions