NetsBlox Documentation

Fundamentals

• Networking Concepts
  • Rooms
  • Messages
  • Services (RPCs)
• Walkthroughs
  • Signing up/in
  • Sending and receiving messages
  • Using Services (Remote Procedure Calls)
  • Managing rooms
  • Working with custom messages
  • Playing multiplayer games
• Handling Errors
  • Types of Errors
  • Errors in NetsBlox
• RPC Argument Types

Services

• Alexa
  • Creating Your First Alexa Skill
• ArtificialIntelligence
  • CoreNLP
  • ParallelDots
  • ThisXDoesNotExist
• Autograders
  • Overview
  • Architecture
• Chart
• Climate
  • EarthOrbit
  • HistoricalTemperature
  • HurricaneData
  • IceCoreData
  • MaunaLoaCO2Data
  • OceanData
  • PaleoceanOxygenIsotopes
• CloudVariables
• Database
  • BaseX
• Execute
• Games
  • Battleship
  • ConnectN
  • Hangman
  • NPlayer
  • SimpleHangman
  • Trivia
  • TwentyQuestions
• Geolocation
• GoogleMaps
• GoogleStreetView
• History
  • NewYorkPublicLibrary
  • Smithsonian
• KeyValueStore
• Language
  • CoreNLP
  • ParallelDots
  • ProjectGutenberg
  • Translation
• MetMuseum
• MovieDB
  • Movies
  • People
• NewYorkTimes
  • Articles
  • Articles,MostPopular
  • Books
  • Concepts
  • MovieReviews
• PhoneIoT
  • Display
  • Sensors
  • Utility
• Pixabay
• PublicRoles
• RoboScape
• Science
  • AirQuality
  • COVID-19
  • EarthOrbit
  • Earthquakes
  • Eclipse2017
  • HistoricalTemperature
  • HumanMortalityDatabase
  • HurricaneData
  • IceCoreData
  • MaunaLoaCO2Data
  • NASA
  • OceanData
  • PaleoceanOxygenIsotopes
  • StarMap
  • WaterWatch
  • Weather
• ServiceCreation
• Thingspeak
• Traffic
• Twitter

Deployment

• Installation
  • Docker
  • Native
• Deploy with Docker Compose
• Command Line Interface
  • User creation and Group Management
• RPC Support
  • Required Environment Variables for RPCs

Development

• Services Overview
  • What are services?
  • Are there different types of services?
  • How can I contribute a native service?
• Hello Custom Services
  • Create the service
  • Use it from the browser!
  • Next Steps
• Service Annotations
  • Service/RPC Annotations
  • Service Annotations
  • RPC Annotations
• Best Practices for NetsBlox Services
  • Naming Conventions
  • Argument Names
  • Annotations and Argument Types
  • Argument Order
  • Tests
  • Error Handling
  • Handling Complex Data
  • Conditional Loading of Services
  • Sending messages to sender
• Using External APIs
  • Concepts
  • Methods
  • API Keys
• Utilities
  • CSV Toolset
• Adding Example Projects
  • Adding the Example