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vito-de-tullio
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3 years ago
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Where to find code libraries?

I'm just starting with roku, and I have some questions about how to extend the api offered by the platform with additional libraries.

For example, in my project I would like to be able to take some objects, serialize them in protobuf and send them to an mqtt endpoint.

While technically I may be able to write a protobuf serializer and an mqtt publisher "by hand" I really would prefer to use some already made libraries, like I do in other languages and for other platforms, like python, java and whatnot.

Unfortunately I cannot find any public "repository" of public available roku libraries, like it seems to me there is no equivalent of pypi, maven central, or similar.

Can you point me to a package index or a way to find these dependencies for my project?

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  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert

    There's nothing like that for BS.   You can find plenty of code on github, but whether you'll be able to find what you're looking for I couldn't say.

    • vito-de-tullio's avatar
      vito-de-tullio
      Reel Rookie
      renojim wrote:

      There's nothing like that for BS.

      Bummer :(

      renojim wrote:

      You can find plenty of code on github, but whether you'll be able to find what you're looking for I couldn't say.

      Do you have some suggestion on how to search? github is big, and google bigger, so I would hope for at least some keyword to narrow the search, or, some "awesome list" of libraries, like https://github.com/sorrycc/awesome-javascript 

      • renojim's avatar
        renojim
        Community Streaming Expert

        I can't suggest anything, but I can tell you that one of my pet peeves is programmers that spend more time searching for something than it would have taken to just code it themselves.