Leaphy Blocks

Leaphy Blocks is an adaptation of the Blockly library. Google's Blockly is a library that adds a visual code editor to web and mobile apps. The Blockly editor uses interlocking, graphical blocks to represent code concepts like variables, logical expressions, loops, and more. It allows users to apply programming principles without having to worry about syntax or the intimidation of a blinking cursor on the command line. All code is free and open source.

Leaphy Blocks is primarily developed for use in the Leaphy Easybloqs application. It is published as an npm package.

Building

You can build the blocks repo by using npm run build, you can also watch for changes and automatically rebuild by using npm run watch

Using with WebBased

Link the blocks repo by using yarn link, use yarn unlink first if it says you already have a package linked. After link to the blocks repo from your local webbased by using yarn link "@leaphy-robotics/leaphy-blocks"

Getting Help

• Ask for help on the Leaphy Forum
• Report an Issue on Github

Contributing to Leaphy Blocks

Creating Custom Blocks

Good documentation about creating custom blocks exists in the Google Blockly Developer Pages.

Fix a Bug

Syncing with Google Blockly

Google Blocks typically releases a new version of Blockly once a quarter (every 3 months), or when a breaking bug needs an immediate fix. The Leaphy Blocks fork will be synced with those releases when they occur.

Release Process

Use yarn publish and NOT yarn run publish to publish a new version of the npm package