Alpaca-addon

About

The heart of Alpaca UI. It works by tapping into JS V8 engine via bindings to N-API provided by Neon. Essentially this is a DLL that manipulates object within NodeJS process of Alpaca called Engine process and that can be assembled into an NPM module. It creates a Devnet that directly passes results to JS engine.

Setup

To work with Alpaca project needs to be compiled within electron-build environment.

Compilation

To install dependencies run:

yarn

To compile the project use:

yarn start build

For debug version run:

yarn start build.dev

For cross-compiling the project run:

yarn start build.<target-arch>

For now only arm64 and x64 options are supported.

Creating an NPM package:

yarn start pack

If you cross-compiled the project run:

yarn start pack.<target-arch>

Testing

After compilation and packing. Within test directory run:

yarn
yarn start prepare
yarn start test