Owlet Editor🦉

A simple, intuitive creative coding tool for BBC BASIC inspired by BBC Micro Bot

Try the beta now at bbcmic.ro and get coding!

A modern editor for a classic language

• Fast, intuitive web-based editor (autocomplete, highlighting)
• Linked to 1000 BBC BASIC code examples from the bbcmicrobot community
• Based on Monaco editor

BBC Micro emulator for instant feedback

• Integrated with JSbeeb emulator
• Share your entire program as a URL
• Export to external emulator for interactive use

Share your creations with the BBC Micro Bot Mastodon community

• One button tweet to share code (not yet updated for Mastodon)
• Automatic code golfing tools - byte token encode/decode

To develop

$ make run   # Starts the Vite development server
$ npm run build   # Build for production
$ npm run preview   # Preview the production build locally

Then visit http://localhost:8080

Build System

Owlet Editor uses Vite as its build system. The project was migrated from webpack to Vite to align with the jsbeeb dependency, which also uses Vite.

Known Issues

• When running tests, you may see warnings about missing source maps for Monaco Editor. This is a known issue with Monaco Editor 0.52.0+ and doesn't affect functionality.