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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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Yes, we need to come up with a good solution. It's a hard balance between being totally friendly to new users (having a 'curated' list of non-duplicated modules that are searchable, well documented and 'just work') and being totally open for anyone to publish whatever they want, with versions and stuff like that.
There's also this issue of having NPM modules be nicely usable with the Web IDE - things like
npm installand minification become way more painful if you're working within the confines of the browser.@chalkers is working on some tools that should make Espruino easier to use in a more Node-style way (there's also
espruinoon NPM)... it's just finding a way to have everything work together, as the Node.js/NPM workflow is very different to the 'plug in and go' that many other Espruino users are used to.