Using Espruino in Visual Studio Code with TypeScript build

Espruino is JavaScript framework for microcontrollers: https://www.espruino.com/

This is attepmt to use VSC as alternative IDE for Espruino.

Prerequisites

• npm install espruino -g

Under Windows you may need to install npm install windows-build-tools -g for espruino to build properly espruino is set as dev. dependency, if you installed it globaly run npm link espruino in project folder, else run npm install before using

Usage

1. in src folder put all .ts files (you can have multiple)
2. in board.json you can set your board port and speed
3. ctrl+shift+b to build with tsc, it will generate single file Output.js
4. open NPM SCRIPTS buttom of VSC explorer tree
5. use upload to send upload to the board
6. use console to open REPL
7. if upload task fail due to port busy, please close console task

you can adjust tsconfig.json to change target to es5 if some of es6 fatures are not yet supported by Espruino

Limitations

• lot, this is very first attempt of marying it all togheter - so don't expect much:)
• it uses Espruino types definition https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/espruino done by https://github.com/stasberkov, then changed manually by me to allow non-modular compilation
• not tested under linux, tested only with ESP boards over serial connection (no BLE)