Blockly app development using scratch blocks

[visual coder]

Dear all,

Looking for developing a blockly application for exploring computer vision and machine learning using scratch blocks.We have experience in developing blockly apps using blockly developer tools.Is the procedure same for using scratch blocks?If there is any getting started help ,would greatly appreciated.

Thankyou

[Beka Westberg]

Hello,

As far as I know the scratch-blocks repo doesn't really provide developer docs, because they're not really focused on being a library :/

I think that for most intents and purposes pure Blockly is probably going to be the better choice. If you want your blocks to be in the style of scratch/pxt there is a new zelos renderer that makes them look like that. If you want to use a few scratch-blocks specific fields, it's pretty easy to move them over. And I believe the toolbox refactor that is being worked on will eventually make it easier to have a scratch-blocks-like toolbox. But on that last point I'm not sure hehe.

If you don't want to use Blockly I think you should also look into the pxt-blockly library before settling on scratch-blocks. From what I've heard, that library gives you most of the same scratch functionality (like the rendering) but it's a little bit easier to work with, because it has less scratch-specific code (like things that interact with scratch-gui).

Whichever way you decide to go, I wish you the best of luck with your project :D It sounds like a fun one!

--Beka

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[Abby Schmiedt]

In regard to a scratch-blocks-like toolbox, this is something we are actively working on and should be available as a plugin in the next few months. 

Thanks, 

Abby

[Santhosh v pillai]

Thank you Beka and Abby for the reply.