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

• ArtificialIntelligence
  • Alexa
  • 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
  • HurricaneData
  • RainViewer
  • WaterWatch
  • Weather
• Health
  • AirQuality
  • COVID-19
  • HumanMortalityDatabase
• History
  • MetMuseum
  • NewYorkPublicLibrary
  • Smithsonian
• Language
  • CoreNLP
  • ParallelDots
  • ProjectGutenberg
  • Translation
• Location
  • Geolocation
  • GoogleMaps
  • GoogleStreetView
• Media
  • Chart
  • Genius
  • MovieDB
  • NewYorkTimes
  • Pixabay
  • ThisXDoesNotExist
  • Twitter
• PhoneIoT
  • Display
  • Sensors
  • Utility
• PublicRoles
• RoboScape
• Society
  • AirQuality
  • BingTraffic
  • Genius
  • MovieDB
  • Twitter
• Utilities
  • Autograders
  • BaseX
  • CloudVariables
  • Execute
  • PublicRoles
  • ServiceCreation

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