openspace-api-js v0.1.6

openspace-api-js

JavaScript library to interface with OpenSpace using sockets and WebSockets.

Work in progress

Both the API and libary are still very much work in progress, and are subject to change.

Documentation

A reference can be found here. Examples are available below:

NodeJS in the terminal

https://github.com/OpenSpace/openspace-api-js/blob/master/examples/example.js provides an example of how to connect from a NodeJS. To run it, run npm example.js in a terminal.

Simple website

https://github.com/OpenSpace/openspace-api-js/blob/master/examples/index.html provides an example of connecting to OpenSpace from a website. For simplicity, the example is self-contained in the index.html file.

Web application

For a proper example of how to interact with OpenSpace from a web application using npm, webpack and modern ES versions, please refer to https://github.com/OpenSpace/openspace-api-web-example.

Observable Notebook

Use Obserable notebooks to interact with OpenSpace locally: https://observablehq.com/@emiax/openspace-notebook-example This may be useful for tinkering, GUI prototyping and testing the lua interface during development.