Argon 2 pre-release general discussion

[DervexDev]

Have any questions? Found a bug? Got some suggestions?

If so, this is the perfect place to comment!

[AridAjd]

Is this supposed to happen? When I sync with rojo, it syncs the Aegis folder properly into the ReplicatedStorage but when I do it with argon it ports the Aegis folder inside the game.

EDIT: Just found out that argon runs the default.project.json file even though I have specified dev.project.json

[DervexDev]

No, it's a bug but I just fixed it. Will release pre4 version after I'm done with other stuff.

[DervexDev]

Fixed. See #23

[AridAjd]

??

(Also you didn't publish the release as pre-release, just letting yk)

EDIT: You can't connect to other ports from the plugin other than 8000

EDIT 2: Seems like the port can only be changed from the settings

[DervexDev]

That's because your %localappdata%/Roblox/Plugins folder does not exist. Argon should create one in this case though.

(Also you didn't publish the release as pre-release, just letting yk)

Yep, that's intentional. In order to make Argon auto update feature work release has to be marked as latest.

EDIT 2: Seems like the port can only be changed from the settings

Can confirm. The input box on the default page is broken.

Will fix all of this stuff soon!

[DervexDev]

Fixed both issues in 2.0.0-pre5

[CompletedLoop]

I really dont understand the point of this since this is now just a Rojo clone with no advantages. The whole attraction to argon was to just connect it to a external text editor with no hassle since Rojo was too extra for what most people wanted and the fact argon easily worked with already created projects. I know the original was a buggy mess but it still should do what is always did.

[DervexDev]

I really dont understand the point of this since this is now just a Rojo clone with no advantages.

Well you are actually very wrong. Argon now offers literally everything Rojo does with addition of:

• studio subcommand
• exec subcommand
• Customizable in every way possible (via global config and flags)
• Automatic installer and updater
• More performant than Rojo on macOS
• Better documentation
• Built-in support for roblox-ts and wally
• Custom project templates
• Support for automated formatting and linting
• Better two-way sync
• Uses more modern libraries
• Cleaner meta files
• and many many more!

The whole attraction to argon was to just connect it to a external text editor with no hassle since Rojo was too extra for what most people wanted and the fact argon easily worked with already created projects.

This does not change! VSC user won't notice that anything changed and it will be still so easy to setup and use Argon as it was.

Disclaimer!

Not everything I mentioned is available right now! But it will be with the official 2.0.0 release!

[AridAjd]

• Built-in support for roblox-ts and wally

How does wally work built-in? Or is it not implemented yet?

[DervexDev]

Right now you can init project with wally.toml manifest using --wally flag. Additionally Argon will install Wally dependencies automatically if Packages folder is empty or does not exist at all but this hasn't been implemented yet.

[AridAjd]

Is argon studio broken? It says that it's opening studio but nothing else happens.

[DervexDev]

But does the Argon launch Roblox Studio either?

[AridAjd]

Nope, tried it. It doesn't.

[DervexDev]

Well the code I sent you is literally ripped from Argon's source code. Could you send me the output anyways then?

[AridAjd]

Only prints out the path.

Well, I don't mind if the problem is just happening to me. It's better if it's not a problem for everyone else.

[DervexDev]

That's actually weird. Will try to mess around with this once I'm done with other stuff.

[DervexDev]

Closing this discussion in favor of this one since Argon 2 has been officially released!