Daemon is a cross-platform frontend for a robotics control system. It's also the future.

1. Ensure you have git, npm. Don't use brew to install npm; on OS X (and probably Linux) you can follow the first guide here.
2. git clone [this repo]
3. cd daemon
4. npm install -g brunch bower
5. npm install Install node dependencies.
6. bower install Install frontend dependencies.
7. npm run compiler This will run a watching compiler. You can run a one-time compiler by running brunch b instead.
8. npm run app
9. cd app/assets; npm install Install frontend node dependencies.
10. If you want to work with anything that depends on the radio, you will need to compile your Serialport; see instructions below.

You need the following stuff installed on your machine:

• Node.js & NPM (see the instructions for your operating system. Ensure that globally installed NPM modules are in your PATH!)
• Git. Windows users: try Git Bash, there is a good usable CLI included which should work with the workflow out-of-the-box. Use Git Bash instead of CMD.exe.
• Linux Users: You may have to do a weird patch.
• Brunch and Bower via a global npm installation: npm install -g brunch bower. (You can also install these separately.) Once you've got those things installed, do
• npm install in your directory to install dependencies
• bower install in your directory to install frontend. There will sometimes be choices because some packages require different versions of other packages; it's usually ok to just pick the latest version of the package.
• cd app/assets; npm install Install frontend node dependencies.
• You should be done with everything except the radio. To compile Serialport to use the radio, see instructions below.

• npm run to see the various scripts you can run.
• npm run compiler assembles your application into /_public and watches file changes.
• npm run app starts your application locally.
• npm run deploy builds your app for windows, osx and linux. the binaries are placed in /dist after building.
• bower install <frontend-module> for any frontend-related stuff.
• npm install my-module inside of app/assets to install node.js modules.

Serialport is a Node.js package to interface with hardware serial ports, such as the ones we need to communicate over the radio. There are precompiled binaries online available for Node.js, but not for node-webkit. We have to compile our own.

• First, cd into your app/assets folder. You should already have run npm install in this folder, but running it again won't hurt.
• cd node_modules/serialport.
• Now that we're in the Serialport folder, we need to build it. You should install node-pre-gyp and nw-gyp: npm install -g node-pre-gyp nw-gyp. You could also install them locally, but they need to be on your path.
• Run node-pre-gyp build --runtime=node-webkit --target=0.10.0
• You should get a bunch of green output. If you get an error, someone will have to help debug your system.