Snazzle

A better frontend for Scratch, built by the community, for the community

Snazzle is the original attempt at a better Scratch website. It aims to be feature-rich and easy and quick to use, incorporating many things that the Scratch community has been wanting for years.

Basically, this is a Scratch website just for power users.

If you’re more than a casual user of the Scratch website for whatever reason, then you’ll like Snazzle. It’s like a giant vat of coffee brewed with ingredients from the Scratch community. – Snazzle’s homepage

Contributing

Format your code with Black and make a pull request. If there is a feature branch for what you are changing, make the PR to that branch instead of main.

Running your own instance locally

Since Snazzle is very much still in development, this won’t be representative of the final product’s build steps.

But for now, this is how you do it:

1. Clone the repo
2. (optional but recommended) Create a Python virtual environment. Snazzle requires Python 3.8+. However, we recommend 3.11+ as this version has better error messages that will let us diagnose issues better if you submit a bug report.
3. If you are on an Arch(-based) linux distro, you will have to run sudo pacman -S python-flask to install Flask.

   Deps are installed automatically since commit 822d869.

4. Once deps are installed, run flask run --with-threads. This will set up a Flask server at 127.0.0.1:5000. If you find any bugs, please report them.

   The --with-threads option is basically required if you want Snazzle to run fast.

5. Go to 127.0.0.1:5000 in your favourite browser and play around with it!

Hosting on Replit

We’ve discontinued the repl you used to have to fork a while ago because of updates to replit. Please host an instance somewhere else. (Sorry, it’s not our fault.)

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