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Soundworks wizard

The soundworks wizard is a interactive command line tool that gives you access to a bunch of high-level routines, such as:

• Create and configure new clients
• Install / uninstall plugins and related libraries
• Find some documentation
• Create environment config files
• etc.

npx soundworks

Available npm scripts

npm run dev

Launch the application in development mode. Watch file system, compile and/or bundle files on change, and restart the server when needed.

npm run build

Build the application. Compile and bundle the sources without launching the server.

npm run start

Launch the server without building the application. Basically a shortcut for node ./.build/server/index.js.

npm run watch [name] (node clients only)

Launch the [name] client and restart when the sources are updated.

For example, if you are developing an application with a node client, you should run the dev script (to build the sources and start the server) in one terminal:

npm run dev

And launch and watch the node client(s) (e.g. called thing) in another terminal. The client will automatically restart when the sources are re-compiled by the dev script:

npm run watch thing

Configuring the build

Browser clients are compiled using swc. By default, builds are made with the es2022 target which supports a number of modern JavaScript features.

If you need to support older browsers, you can configure the build in the .swcrc file (cf. https://swc.rs/docs/configuration/swcrc)

Environment variables

ENV

Define which environment config file should be used to run the application. Environment config files are located in the /config directory, are prefixed with env-.

For example, given the following config files:

├─ config
│  ├─ env-default.json
│  └─ env-prod.json   

To start the server the /config/env-prod.js configuration file, you should run:

ENV=prod npm run start

If no env file is found, the application will generate a default config suitable for most development uses.

PORT

Override the port defined in the config file.

For example, to launch the server on port 3000 whatever the port value defined in the default configuration file, you should run:

PORT=3000 npm run start

Emulating clients

In development it can be convenient to emulate several clients in the same browser window or same terminal

Browsers clients

To emulate several browser clients in the same window, just append the query parameter ?emulate=[num_clients] to the URL. For example to launch 10 clients side by side in the same window, you should run:

http://127.0.0.1:8000?emulate=10

Node clients

To emulate several node clients in the same terminal, you can use the EMULATE=[num_clients] environment variable. For example to launch 10 clients in parallel from the same terminal, you should run:

EMULATE=10 npm run watch thing

Credits

soundworks is developed by the ISMM team at Ircam

License

BSD-3-Clause