Quick Start Best Practices - Commonly Referenced Links to Review and Bookmark

Sat 2021.08.28

After countless forum responses kept bringing me back to the same content time and time again, I realized a quick launch page similar to the FAQ's and Tips and Tricks pages is needed. Modified from an on-going list previously maintained in 'Writing an effective forum post'

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Flash firmware

From the WebIDE :: Settings >> Flasher

https://www.espruino.com/Download#flashi­ng
https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blo­b/master/README_BuildProcess.md

Current Espruino versions and release dates

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/rel­eases
https://www.espruino.com/ChangeLog
http://www.espruino.com/binaries/travis/­master/

Three WebIDE variants

Chrome Web Store IDE should 'just work'
Installing native app
Easiest but it needs an up to date version of Chrome
Version 85.0.4183.102 (Official Build) (64-bit) some recent older versions do work also (2020.09.22)
Version 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit) (current 2021.08.28)

Common 'Gotchas'

Issues on start up after save()

Quick Start Best Practices - Proper way to call init()

ES5 vs ES6

http://www.espruino.com/Features

Which Javascript Standards Version and Javascript Language Reference should be used?

Frequently referenced pages:

http://www.espruino.com/Tips+and+Tricks

http://www.espruino.com/Troubleshooting

http://www.espruino.com/Tutorials

http://www.espruino.com/Saving

http://www.espruino.com/Reference#softwa­re

http://www.espruino.com/Debugger

http://www.espruino.com/Quick+Start

https://www.espruino.com/Quick+Start+BLE­

http://www.espruino.com/Features

http://www.espruino.com/Fonts

https://www.espruino.com/Internals

https://www.espruino.com/Performance

http://www.espruino.com/FAQ

Steps to locate Espruino source code (in this case the embedded WiFi module source)

http://www.espruino.com/Reference#Wifi
selected connect() function
http://www.espruino.com/Reference#t_l_Wi­fi_connect

Locate and click the Right Facing arrow adjacent to the heading, which takes one to:

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blo­b/master/libs/network/jswrap_wifi.c#L207­

Back up the tree in order to locate source code for other functions

Steps to locate Fonts source code (in this case the Font7x11Numeric7Seg font)

Typing 'Fonts' into the Search field at the upper right of most Espruino pages.

http://www.espruino.com/Fonts

Noting that right clicking on almost every listed font takes one to:

http://www.espruino.com/modules/

Searching that list finds the desired Font7x11Numeric7Seg font.

http://www.espruino.com/modules/Font7x11­Numeric7Seg.js
http://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js+Clock+­Font

Bangle specific

https://banglejs.com/reference
https://banglejs.com/apps/
https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoDocs­/blob/master/info/Troubleshooting%20Bang­le.js.md

Emulator

https://www.espruino.com/ide/?emulator
http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/­341313/

Which Bangle hardware version do I have?

https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js
https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2

Bangle.js 2 only has a single button, while the original standard Bangle has 3 buttons

Steps to locate Bangle app source code: (in this case the touch event within 'Touch Launcher' app source)

https://banglejs.com/apps/

Find the 'GitHub' icon to the left below app title 'Touch Launcher' and R-Click open which will take you to: [Line 230]

https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/b­lob/master/apps/toucher/app.js#L230

Web page control of Bangle: See heading below: Puck bi-directional Try It examples here

Bluetooth BLE

BLE 16-bit UUID Numbers Document

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications­/assigned-numbers/
https://btprodspecificationrefs.blob.cor­e.windows.net/assigned-values/16-bit%20U­UID%20Numbers%20Document.pdf

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/dho­rton668/bluetooth-weather-station-40d1e4­

Puck bi-directional Try It examples here:

https://www.espruino.com/Web%20Bluetooth­
https://www.puck-js.com/go

Javascript Language Reference

The Mozilla Developer Network 'MDN' reference along with w3c.org standards are the places to go to understand the language specifics, while W3Schools has a nice interactive try before coding editor-viewer.

https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp­
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs­/Web/JavaScript/Reference
https://www.w3.org/TR/
https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/overvi­ew.html#sec-overview

@Robin

End-user and five-year supporter of Original Espruino boards (circa January 2017)

P.S. Thank you for supporting the Espruino community with the purchase of an Authentic Espruino board

Edits:
Sat 2021.08.28   Created
Sun 2021.010.03   Added Bangle web page BLE
Sat 2021.010.30   Added ECMA262 Specification

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