Quickly scaffold a modern Roku app, including the best practices to enhance your development experience.

This project assumes that you will be using VSCode for development.

npx create-roku-app

npx create-roku-app --name "My App" --recommended

1. Select a language

   • BrighterScript (recommended): A superset of the BrightScript language that includes modern features like classes, namespaces, compiler plugins and more. Compiles to Vanilla BrightScript.

   • Vanilla BrightScript: The old reliable language provided by Roku.

2. Linter and formatter

   • Install both (recommended)

   • Install linter only (bslint)

   • Install formatter only (brighterscript-formatter)

   • Not this time.

3. Enable SceneGraph Inspector: A faster and more insightful SceneGraph inspector within the Visual Studio Code plugin.

   • Enable (recommended)

   • Not this time.

4. Run git init? (y/n)

5. Run npm install? (y/n)

These are only available as CLI --flags and will not appear on the questions list

• --name: Shortcut to set the name of your project.

• --pm: Set the package manager that will be used to install dependencies, if necessary. Values: npm (default) | yarn | pnpm.

• --recommended: Start a project with the recommended options values.

You can see our issues list for things that need to be implemented. For any questions ping me (@arturocuya) on the Roku Developers Slack channel.