makenai / robotnik

Drag and drop robotics educational library starring Johnny Five and Blockly (crowd goes wild)
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Make startup nicer #5

Open makenai opened 9 years ago

makenai commented 9 years ago

It's not friendly to just start a server and ask someone to navigate to it. It would be nicer if it was packaged up like one of these:

https://nodesource.com/blog/node-desktop-applications

BrianGenisio commented 9 years ago

Yes! This is a requirement for making the platform accessible. You'd probably need to explicitly support a lot of things, like different IO layers so that it is easy to get working without them needing to npm install things... but I totally agree... a "captive runtime" install has to be in the roadmap.