TypeScript for Picotron

This is a template project to mix-and-match TypeScript and Lua for your Picotron projects.

Setup

Requirements

• NodeJS
• pnpm

Create your project

• Create a new project (i.e. my-project) from this template
• Clone my-project in your Picotron's drive folder
• cd my-project then pnpm install
• Inside Picotron:
  • Open the terminal, cd my-project then load game
  • Edit main.lua to change the cd line to cd("/my-project/build")
  • Run the game

Development

• pnpm dev will watch and rebuild your TypeScript code.
• pnpm build is required when you change Lua code.

The resulting code is a single build/bundle.lua file.

Publish

In Picotron

> cd my-project
> load game

• Open the code inside Picotron
• Comment the cd() line in main.lua
• Save

On the host

pnpm build

In Picotron

Open the terminal:

> cp -f /my-project/build/src /ram/cart/build/src
> save
> export my-project.bin