scratch-blocks
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Scratch Blocks is a library for building creative computing interfaces.
Scratch Blocks is a library for building creative computing interfaces.
Scratch Blocks is a fork of Google's Blockly project that provides a design specification and codebase for building creative computing interfaces. Together with the Scratch Virtual Machine (VM) this codebase allows for the rapid design and development of visual programming interfaces. Unlike Blockly, Scratch Blocks does not use code generators, but rather leverages the Scratch Virtual Machine to create highly dynamic, interactive programming environments.
This project is in active development and should be considered a "developer preview" at this time.
Scratch Blocks brings together two different programming "grammars" that the Scratch Team has designed and continued to refine over the past decade. The standard Scratch grammar uses blocks that snap together vertically, much like LEGO bricks. For our ScratchJr software, intended for younger children, we developed blocks that are labelled with icons rather than words, and snap together horizontally rather than vertically. We have found that the horizontal grammar is not only friendlier for beginning programmers but also better suited for devices with small screens.
The "getting started" guide including FAQ and design documentation can be found in the wiki.
We provide Scratch free of charge, and want to keep it that way! Please consider making a donation to support our continued engineering, design, community, and resource development efforts. Donations of any size are appreciated. Thank you!
This project uses semantic release to ensure version bumps follow semver so that projects depending on it don't break unexpectedly.
In order to automatically determine version updates, semantic release expects commit messages to follow the conventional-changelog specification.
You can use the commitizen CLI to make commits formatted in this way:
npm install -g commitizen@latest cz-conventional-changelog@latest
Now you're ready to make commits using git cz.
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Scratch Blocks is a library for building creative computing interfaces.
The npm package scratch-blocks receives a total of 4,618 weekly downloads. As such, scratch-blocks popularity was classified as popular.
We found that scratch-blocks demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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