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A development platform for building roku channels in brighterscript.

Why maestro?

Maestro Makes roku development easier, especially for experienced software engineers from other platforms:

I believe that experienced developers from android, ios, c#, web, node, etc, should be able to be productive on a roku app in no more than a week, just as they would on any other platform. So I wrote maestro to make that possible.

Maestro is built to:

• Raise velocity
• Increase productivity
• Reduce learning
• Simply cross-skilling
• Make roku development more fun
• Produce roku apps that can be maintained by non roku developer
• Produce roku apps that can be unit tested easily
• Write code that can be tested and breakpoint debugged, outside of SG views (which are slow as hell, and prone to crashing when breakpoint debugging)

Maestro is easy to use:

• Delivered as ropm module for easy installation
• Has sample app, which is ready to roll for production ready roku apps

Maestro is aligned with community best practices and tools

• Uses ropm
• Written in brighterscript
• Uses brighterscript plugins for compile time and IDE diagnostics
• No need for complex build scripts or bespoke build processes (like bash/gulp etc); maestro apps can run simply by executing bsc (brighterscript compiler)

Maestro is performant

• Runs great on all roku devices
• Maestro apps launch quick and are snappy

Maestro is installed on millions of devices

Been in production for > 2 years at:

• applicaster, and their various clients
• smithsonian
• corco
• other clients (names pending permission ;) )

Contributing:

• Please feel free to raise issues with features/bug reports
• And feel free to submit prs
• Or reach out to me on the roku-slack channel