electron-blink1-toy

electron-blink1-toy

A simple Electron app to experiment with node-blink1 & node-hid.

Tested on Electron v8+

Assumes you have blink(1) device plugged in before running app.

To use:

npm install
npm run pack
npm run start

To build the application:

npm install
npm run pack
npm run dist

Note:

On certain OS + Electron version combinations, node-hid will need to be recompiled for Electron, so you will need C compiler installed.
This is not normally needed for Mac & Windows.

For more details on what you need, see:

• https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation
• https://github.com/node-hid/node-hid#compiling-from-source

But basically:

• Mac OS X: Install XCode and enable Command Line Tools
• Windows: npm install -g --production windows-build-tools ; npm install -g node-gyp (via admin shell)
• Linux: Python, make, gcc (sudo apt-get install build-essential on Ubuntu)

Previous version:

Uses the magic of require('babel-register') in both the app and renderer to do on-the-fly transpiling

This project leans heavily on https://github.com/b52/electron-es6-react