Embedded {hardware} specialist M5Stack has introduced a brand new launch for its UIFlow browser-based built-in improvement atmosphere (IDE) — and, in a break with custom, it is now doable to put in the server portion regionally by yourself {hardware}.
The UIFlow IDE is primarily designed to be used with M5Stack’s personal vary of improvement boards and equipment, and goals to make the method of placing your personal tasks collectively simpler by placing every thing within the browser. Utilizing M5Stack’s hosted model, there isn’t any software program set up required in any respect — and for these new to coding the instrument features a drag-and-drop block-based visible programming atmosphere constructed on Blockly, with a conventional Python view additionally accessible.
The software program’s newest launch, although, brings a complete new function. Dropped at our consideration by CNX Software program, the newest UIFlow launch comes with the choice to run your personal server regionally — putting in it on one machine in your community and making it accessible to a number of different machines, with out having to make use of M5Stack’s hosted model and whereas protecting your entire information saved regionally for improved privateness and safety.
M5Stack has launched UIFlow IDE server you’ll be able to run your self — after retiring the desktop app. (📷: M5Stack)
The UIFlow server is obtainable for Microsoft Home windows 11 — although Home windows 10 also needs to be suitable — in addition to Apple’s macOs and Linux on 64-bit x86 {hardware}. There’s additionally a model for Linux on Arm-based units, together with M5Stack’s CM4Stack — and on condition that’s primarily based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, the identical model also needs to be installable on the Raspberry Pi 4 and new Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer systems.
The transfer comes as M5Stack discontinues the desktop variations of the instrument, which had been merely a model of the net app wrapped in an Electron envelope. In addition to permitting a single set up to be shared by a number of machines on the identical community, the brand new server model additionally allows you to use the browser of your alternative. There may be one downside to the server launch, although: it solely gives entry to UIFlow 1.0 — whereas the newer UIFlow 2.0, which helps extra {hardware}, is simply accessible by utilizing M5Stack’s hosted model.
The UIFlow server launch is obtainable to obtain on the M5Stack web site — although, on the time of writing, the corporate’s web site was returning an error, so you could want to attend a short while earlier than leaping in.
