Create Scratch Offline Editor for Linux

Scratch provides an Offline Editor, so you can use it even if you are not online. Scratch - Scratch Offline Editor

However, as you can see from the link above, ** not for Linux **. Sorry ...

However, Scratch publishes the Editor GUI as open source. LLK/scratch-gui

If you build this yourself and run it locally, you can use it as an offline version of Scratch.

Preparation

Please arrange the following.

• Node.js
• npm
• git --Appropriate browser (Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, etc.)

The following is an example on Ubuntu.

Example on Ubuntu

Install the package.

Install Git.

sudo apt install git

Next, please refer to the following article and put in the Node.js environment (I will quote it. Thank you). Install the latest Node.js on Ubuntu effortlessly

It's time

First, clone the repository from Git and install the dependencies. It may take some time.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/LLK/scratch-gui.git
cd scratch-gui
npm install

Since Scratch is made with React, you can start it with npm start, but it will take some time to compile each time you start it. So, compile it first. It takes a lot of time.

npm run-script build

When finished, I think that index.html is generated in builds/. Open this with Chrome etc., and if it works normally, the offline version is completed.