alexxnica / pxt-32

Casual game editor based on Microsoft MakeCode

Casual game editor using Microsoft MakeCode

This repo contains an editor built with Microsoft MakeCode (PXT).

Local Dev setup

These instructions assume familiarity with dev tools and languages.

• install Node.js 8+
• (optional) install Visual Studio Code

In a common folder,

• clone https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt to pxt folder
• clone https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-common-packages to pxt-common-packages folder
• clone https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt-32 to pxt-32 folder
• go to pxt and run

npm install
npm run build

• go to pxt-common-packages and run

npm install
npm link ../pxt

• go to pxt-32 and run

npm install
npm link ../pxt
npm link ../pxt-common-packages

to run the local server

From root github folder,

cd pxt-32
pxt serve --cloud

Updating the tools

If you would like to pick up the latest PXT build, simply run

pxt update

More instructions at https://github.com/Microsoft/pxt#running-a-target-from-localhost