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ARcadia

A programming editor to enable construction of real-time, interactive tangible interfaces

Try it out here: https://laboratoryforplayfulcomputation.github.io/arcadia/

Setup

ARcadia is a target for Microsoft Makecode and the following commands are a 1-time setup after synching the repo on your machine.

Setup PXT

  • clone the PXT repo
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt
  • install necessary tools for building PXT
npm install -g jake
npm install -g typings
  • build PXT
npm install
typings install
jake
  • install the pxt command line tool (only need to do it once):
npm install -g pxt

If you would like to pick up the latest PXT build, simply run

pxt update

Setup ARcadia

  • clone ARcadia
  • link ARcadia to the PXT framework (run command from within ARcadia directory)
npm link ../pxt

Running the local server

After you're done, simple run this command inside of the ARcadia repo to open a local web server:

pxt serve

After making a change in the source, refresh the page in the browser.

More instructions at https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt#running-a-target-from-localhost

License

MIT