Orbital Scanner

Factorio mod that allows launching special satellites that allow you to keep an area of the map always in view, like radars.

Overview

This mod was created to serve two purposes:

• Provide an endgame alternative to radar
• Test using TypeScriptToLua to develop Factorio mods using TypeScript

Orbital Scanner is a small mod, that doesn't really deserve to be made via TypeScriptToLua, but it can serve as a starting point for other developers.

Building

Since the mod is not written in raw lua, it must be built/compiled before using. To accomplish this, a build script using Gulp is provided.

Basic command:

yarn run gulp package

This triggers several main tasks:

• Cleans pre-existing build directory
• Transpiles Typescript to Lua
• Copies resource files
• Names the build directory as appropriate (name_version)
• Zips all the files
• Cleans temp files

The output file will be in dist/ with the intermediates in build/

A watch task is also provided to assist with development:

yarn run gulp watch

View gulpfile.js for more build tasks.