Begginers how to: extension example of (any) blockly game

[Ilias Birdas]

Dear community

This is a novice questions, but in my desperation I place it regardless.

I have managed to build the blockly games in my local Ubundu VM.

I installed Visual Studio Code, I can navigate to my installation , I can make changes to files like Maze>scr>maje.js and compile it again (make Maze) .

Can I find somewhere a practical guide or tips on

1) where to find actual reusable extensions and modules and how to use them?
perhaps this is the place? : https://google.github.io/blockly-samples/

2) a hands on advice or guide, how to take one of these plugins  how to add it in the actual code of my local Maze src (or any of the blockly games) and compile it so that I actually see it working ?

Thank you

[Neil Fraser]

Note that Blockly Games doesn't use the current version of Blockly.  We are unable to upgrade since using the current version would increase the download size by a factor of six and decrease stability.  Blockly Games uses its own low-maintenance fork.

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[Ilias Birdas]

Thank you for sharing this information. 

What does this mean practically for the beginner, are there limiting options to achieve extensions as per my example?

The reason I am asking: I have an obligation to make an extension in one platform like blockly.

Should I stay on course or would you suggest to look into another platform?

Kind Regards

Ilias

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[Neil Fraser]

Oh, absolutely make an extension for Blockly.  That would make a great project that's relatively easy to do.  However, your extension won't run in a copy of Blockly Games.

Other members of this group can assist with the extension and how/where to use it.

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[Ilias Birdas]

I remain hopeful for any answers that may occur.

In the meantime , if the suggestion is not to use a copy of blockly games, what is my alternative?

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[epas...@google.com]

Hi there,

If you haven't used Blockly in any other context yet you could go through the Getting Started Codelab so you have a basic local app to experiment with. Once you have a basic app you could then use it for testing your plugin. You can also find more details about plugins on this page.

Cheers,

Erik

[Ilias Birdas]

Thanks for your reply

I understand doing it locally may be a challenge.I went online here:

https://github.com/google/blockly

and I started my own codespace , it opens an environment which is similar to my local Visual Studio code

can you please tell me

a) which one is the command to build-compile any changes I make there?

b) which is the command to run the private instance of blockly games from my codespace?

Thank you

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[Erik Pasternak]

As Neil said, trying to write a plugin using Blockly Games is where you'll run into problems, not trying to do it locally. Please try going through the codelab I linked first as that will walk you through setting up your project and building it.

Cheers,

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[Ilias Birdas]

Guys , thanks for your help , I am now unstuck !

I have had some success and I would like to share with you what happened to give you an alternative perspective.

Some times you have to deal with people who are not that familiar, thus unable to progress stumbling upon problems that may be invisible (due to their triviality).

Things I learned in between:

1) I dont actually have to download a local copy and build blockly games on my PC !!!

Github offers this option to clone a branch of the master code online via this codespace option

I can understand how fundamental this may sound but I was not aware there is such an option , I would not have spend soooo much time trying to set a development environment locally

I started using it , launching my local visual server code installation and it works wonders 

2) Using the newly acquired knowledge of the github online cloning & codespace, I followed the steps from codelabs .

The part I could not achieve was how to run it and see my actual change changes

(what I was previously asking , admittedly not with factual accuracy , how to compile and run it )

well it turns out  I had to install an extension in the Visual Studio server called 'Live Server'

This allows you to fire up the browser to pull all the latest changes and see what you are changing ....

that removed my last blocker .

I am far from done and probably will hear from me on some other topic

however at least now I can spend my time on the actual code extension and not the environment

Thanks for all your help

Regards

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[Erik Pasternak]

Thanks for reporting back and I'm glad you were able to get unstuck!

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