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A p5js editor in VS code

A boilerplate project for a better p5js authoring experience. Basically it opens a Vue application in your browser and allows quick switching between sketches. New sketches (.vue files in the views folder) are automatically added to the navigation bar in Vue.

Motivation: There are other boilerplates out there, but they necessitate to duplicate a whole new project for each sketch.

Setup

1. Clone.
2. npm install.
3. Accept to install the file watching extension VS Code is suggesting.
4. chmod u+x new_files.sh.
5. Run Vite.
6. You can create .vue and use the snippet "p5".

Global Mode

If you prefer global mode and its less verbose code, you can use it even with several sketches by executing globalInit(). It prevents namespace collisions (detected so far).

  function draw() {
    background(220)
    ellipse(50, 50, 80, 80)
  }
  globalInit(draw)
})

Warning

This a work in progress. Especially, the live-reloading may be not cross-platform.

Known limit: deletion of files is detected only if the deletion in done in the explorer sidebar in VS Code.