Local IDE and testing on the Bangle

Posted on Tue 2nd, June 2020

• #1

eaydev

Is there currently a way to use a local IDE (i.e. Atom) and then test on a Bangle? At the moment I've just been copying and pasting but I'm afraid of the growing code base. Any help would be much appreciated! 😁
• #2

Gordon

Hi, yes - the easiest method right now is to use apploader.js from the BangleApps repo: https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/blob/master/bin/apploader.js

So clone it, create your app, and do node apploader.js install appname - although this may only work easily on MacOS & Linux due to how noble work on windows.

There's also the Espruino CLI but that doesn't handle writing apps to storage very well: https://www.npmjs.com/package/espruino
• #3

eaydev

Thank you! I will give it a go.
• #4

NebbishHacker

I was unaware of apploader.js! Doesn't look like it'll work on my windows laptop though, due to the aforementioned issues with noble.

On Windows I've just been hosting the web interface locally. I run npm start, open localhost:8080, and then remove/reinstall the app I'm working on as needed.

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