A new Ginga Developer Ecosystem with ginga.org.br portal, ginga-playground and ginga-code tools

• Alan L. V. Guedes PUC-Rio
• Paulo Victor Borges PUC-Rio
• Daniel Moraes PUC-Rio
• Sergio Colcher PUC-Rio

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/webmedia_estendido.2026.34168

Resumo

The authoring and execution of Ginga-NCL and HTML5 applications for digital television (DTV) have long been constrained by the lack of developer access to lightweight prototyping and testing tools. In this paper, we present a new Ginga Developer Ecosystem designed to lower the barrier to entry for Ginga development. The ecosystem integrates three pillars: (1) http://ginga.org.br, a web portal using a modern static website generator to host a introduction Ginga documentation, NCL Handbook and links to standards; (2) ginga-playground, a browser-native workbench for editing and executing applications; and (3) ginga-code, a Visual Studio Code extension acting as a launcher for applications directly from an IDE.

Palavras-chave: Ginga-NCL, Developer Ecosystem, Web Workbench, VS Code Extension, Debug Bridge, CanvasKit, Headless Execution

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