/scratch-blocks-gsuite

Add-on for Google Docs and Slides to quickly create Scratch blocks for files just by typing

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Scratch Blocks for Google

This repo ports the Scratch Blocks Generator by tjvr into Google Docs and Google Slides for educators to quickly and easily create materials related to Scratch.

The add-on sidebar is a tweaked version of the code for the Scratch Blocks Generator GitHub Page.

Development/modification

  1. Install Google's clasp tool:

    npm i @google/clasp -g

  2. Log into your Google Apps Script account via clasp

    clasp login

  3. Clone/download this repo

  4. Run npm install

  5. The first time through, run npm run build

    This will create the necessary build folders.

  6. Configure the dist/scratch-blocks-docs and dist/scratch-blocks-slides folder to point to a Google Apps Script project. Create a .clasp.json file in each folder with the following contents:

    {
  "scriptId": "your-script-id"
}

  7. Develop the code. When you're ready to push it to the Google Apps Script server, run npm run dev

    Note: The dev command will not create a deployment. It will just push a copy of your code to the specified project for development purposes

Without clasp

If you prefer to develop without clasp, just run npm run build and manually copy the output in dist/scratch-blocks-docs and dist/scratch-blocks-slides to your Google Apps Script project.