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
  • Align
  • Any
  • List
  • ArrestAgeCategory
  • ArrestCategory
  • ArticleSection
  • Audio
  • BPM
  • BestSellerList
  • Boolean
  • BoundedInteger
  • BoundedNumber
  • BoundedString
  • ButtonStyle
  • CatBreed
  • Chords
  • Color
  • ColorScheme
  • ConceptType
  • Date
  • DateFormat
  • DayWeekOrMonth
  • Device
  • DogBreed
  • DrumOneShotTypes
  • DrumPackName
  • Duration
  • Enum
  • EquityField
  • Fit
  • FontSize
  • Function
  • Image
  • InstrumentFamily
  • InstrumentNames
  • Instruments
  • Integer
  • Intent
  • Keys
  • Latitude
  • LegendLocation
  • LineType
  • Longitude
  • MapType
  • MortalityCategory
  • MovebankSensor
  • Number
  • Object
  • OffenseArrest
  • OffenseData
  • OffenseDataOpt
  • OffenseSupplemental
  • OffenseVictim
  • Position
  • SensorPeriod
  • SharedCanvasColor
  • SharedCanvasX
  • SharedCanvasY
  • Size
  • SkillCategory
  • SliderStyle
  • Slot
  • SlotType
  • Species
  • SpeciesNameType
  • String
  • SuppDataOpt
  • SupportedLanguage
  • TimeFormat
  • TimeOffset
  • TimePeriod
  • ToggleStyle
  • TouchpadStyle
  • Tuple
  • USRegion
  • USTerritory
  • AnyOf
  • VaccineCategory
  • VibrationDuration
  • VibrationStrength
  • YearSince

Services

• ArtificialIntelligence
  • Alexa
  • ConnectNAI
  • CoreNLP
  • ParallelDots
  • ThisXDoesNotExist
• Astronomy
  • EarthOrbit
  • Eclipse2017
  • NASA
  • StarMap
• Chart
• Climate
  • AirQuality
  • HistoricalTemperature
  • HurricaneData
  • IceCoreData
  • MaunaLoaCO2Data
  • OceanData
  • PaleoceanOxygenIsotopes
  • RainViewer
  • WaterWatch
  • Weather
• CloudVariables
• Devices
  • Alexa
  • IoTScape
  • PhoneIoT
  • RoboScape
  • Thingspeak
• Games
  • Battleship
  • ConnectN
  • DailyWordGuess
  • Hangman
  • NPlayer
  • SimpleHangman
  • Trivia
  • TwentyQuestions
  • WordGuess
• GeoData
  • AirQuality
  • BingTraffic
  • Earthquakes
  • GlobalBiodiversity
  • HurricaneData
  • Movebank
  • RainViewer
  • WaterWatch
  • Weather
  • Wildcam
• Health
  • AirQuality
  • COVID-19
  • HumanMortalityDatabase
• History
  • MetMuseum
• Language
  • CommonWords
  • CoreNLP
  • ParallelDots
  • ProjectGutenberg
  • Translation
• Location
  • Geolocation
  • GoogleMaps
  • GoogleStreetView
• Media
  • Chart
  • Genius
  • MovieDB
  • NewYorkTimes
  • Pixabay
  • SharedCanvas
  • ThisXDoesNotExist
  • Wildcam
• Music
  • SoundClips
• PhoneIoT
  • Display
  • Sensors
  • Utility
• PublicRoles
• RoboScape
• Society
  • AirQuality
  • BingTraffic
  • Genius
  • MovieDB
• Utilities
  • Autograders
  • BaseX
  • CloudVariables
  • Dev
  • Execute
  • PublicRoles
  • ServiceCreation
  • TimeSync

Advanced

• Sharing Projects via URLs
  • Actions
  • Other Settings

Deployment

• Installation
  • Docker
  • Native
• Deploy with Docker Compose
• Command Line Interface
  • Getting Started
  • Example Usage: Setting up a Summer Camp/Course
  • Example Usage: Development
• Configuring Services
  • Required Environment Variables for Services
  • Services Requiring Additional Configuration

Development

• Development Environment
  • Browser
  • Services
  • Cloud
  • Login Server
• 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