Unofficial iRacing SDK implementation for NodeJS.
First of all I'm a self-taught coder and wouldn't call myself a developer as I have no educational background.
As I had various errors with the original repo node-irsdk By Antti Pihlaja and also several forks, I've tried to puzzle the barebones pieces together to get this version running, starting with node-irsdk-2021 By Nekaiko. Still, kudos to all the developers, that have done all the hard work <3
So, this version works as of 30/12/2022 and NodeJS v18.12.1 LTS, with no prebuild and only the necessary dependencies to get it up and running, but at least no vulnerabilities, so that's good I guess. Also there is none of the previous testing framework, so use at your own risk.
For compiling this package you need node-gyp@^9.0.0.
npm install -g node-gyp
You also need a current version of Python3 and Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools installed.
More information regarding the topic can be found here.
I haven't tried this myself (as I already had msbuild installed), but according to the documentation, you could easily run:
npm install -g windows-build-tools
npm install --save https://github.com/hmiefert/node-irsdk-2023
When using this package with electron, you might run into an error stating that the installed package was compiled against a different version of NodeJS, therefore the NODE_MODULE versions differ and you're expected to recompile the package. To achieve this you need a package called electron-rebuild and run the rebuild command manually:
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
.\node_modules\.bin\electron-rebuild.cmd
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