How can I execute a basiljs script directly from terminal?

[gsomeone]

I'm trying to create a jsx file that gets executed when something else happens in another program. I am confident I can do that if I find the way to launch the jsx file from the terminal.

Has anybody already did this? Is there any documentation?

Background:
I am creating a tool to show shapes to a webcam to rapidly prototype designs in a tangible way.

[ff6347]

Take a look at this stackoverflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/37323769/1770432
You might need to bundle all the scripts.

[ff6347]

There is currently a bug related to ESTK which might make this harder https://medium.com/adobetech/extendscript-toolkit-debugger-error-1116-67cce4d47af7

[ffd8]

A student had success by first having the script accessible within the scripts user panel – then you can make custom shortcuts to launch a script. From there – you can use applescript or we used Processing + robot library to control the computer and press that command key.

[gsomeone]

thanks for your replies.
just to be sure, it's not longer possible to use websocket with basil.js on indd cc 2018?

[ff6347]

Should still be possible but I don't have any examples floating around

[trych]

There is an example here (for the currently still official basil 1.x) and one here (for the yet unreleased but much improved basil 2.0).

I can't test it right now and I also don't have InDesign CC, but you could give it a try.