BionicDash

Minimal proof of concept cross platform network tables client

Goals

• Make debugging complex robot code easier (Programmers best friend)
• Low memory footprint
• support large amounts of frequently changing data
• Cleaner apis for robot code driven layouts
• Robust graphing/charting of timeseries data with export capability
• recording/playback of timeseries data

Non-Goals

• Support all features of Shuffleboard
• Support camera streams
• Features needed for competitions

For Developers

BionicDash is built using the Wails framework which provides APIs to make working with native webviews easier and backend to frontend data synchronization easier. The frontend is written in javascript using the Svelte framework.

Getting Setup

To do development on BionicDash a number of dependencies must be installed:

• Golang

  • Recommend go 1.16 or greater (Debian repos have 1.13 which is starting to get old) Download from https://golang.org/dl/

• Wails

  • go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest
  • See: https://wails.io/docs/gettingstarted/installation

• Node/NPM

  • NodeJs v14

Building for Release

To build a redistributable, production mode package, use wails build. https://wails.io/docs/reference/cli#build

Code Style

Go code should be run through go fmt Shell scripts should pass shellcheck without errors

Code should pass the default suite of linters from golangci-lint. The Github Actions CI is automatically running the linter. @todo Directions here to install the linter locally. $ golangci-lint run can be used to run the linter locally.