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