Dexter Development Environment

DDE allows user to develop and run software on the Dexter 5 axis robot arm made by: http://hdrobotic.com \ DDE is fundamentally a JavaScript development environment with lots of extensions.\ This branch is for DDE 3.x which is an Electron App which installs on your PC. DDE 4 has been ported to a cloud application on the DDE4 branch and is available at \ https://cfry.github.io/dde4/dde/ To install DDE3, most users will simply want to download the appropriate application file for their operating system.\ Start by clicking on the releases word near the top of this window (github main DDE) page\ or browse https://github.com/cfry/dde/releases .\ The "doc" folder above contains a lot of documenation on DDE.\ This documentation is part of DDE and is easily readable within DDE.

For System Developers Only

Below are instructions for building the DDE executables.

travis (for Mac & linux)

appveyor (for Windows)

Commands

$ npm install             # install dependencies
$ npm start               # start the application
$ npm run build           # compile the app but don't package it
$ npm run dist            # compile the app into an ASAR file to release
$ npm run clean           # delete the dist folder
$ npm run rebuild         # rebuild native modules