ledmatrix

node-webkit and (restricted) web Application for controlling a led matrix and also playing games.

currently, only suports x64 linux (due to the need of a proper postinstall.sh script, you could start fixing this!)

Building

We currently only support the full install on 64 bits Linux as we are dealing with a postinstall script specifically for Linux distributions to be able to provide a correct use of node-serialport along with node-webkit. Fork it to help us expand to other architectures!

First, install the dependencies:

$ npm install

then you can build the project for the web or for node-webkit.

For the web:

$ NODE_ENV=web webpack -p

For nodewebkit:

$ NODE_ENV=nodewebkit webpack -p

Related

Building ledmatrix was extremely fun. We (MateusZitelli and i) had only 2 days to build this (including assembling the Arduino project, soldering the board and etc) and what i can tell is that building all of the software on top of node-webkit with the front end components powered by ReactJS along with the Flux pattern was really easy (the easiest part). You should definitely go check what are the technologies behind this.

See:

• rogerwang/node-webkit - for building the desktop application using web tools
• facebook/react - for creating the UI
• facebook/flux - for managing data, events and UI state
• MateusZitelli/arduino-led-matrix - Arduino code and sketch for the matrix
• cirocosta/yaspm - dealing nicely in a node-way with node-serialport
• cirocosta/react-matrix - representing in SVG a given matrix
• cirocosta/matrix-snake - playing Snake game with a matrix.