Getting Started
Installation

Installation

The recommened way to install blink is using Rokit (opens in a new tab).

Installing Blink

Open a terminal in your project directory and run the following command:

Bash
rokit add 1Axen/blink

Updating Blink

When a new version of blink releases, using Rokit you can easily update using the following command:

Bash
rokit update 1Axen/blink

Alternatives

GitHub Releases

You can download pre-built binaries directly from the GitHub Releases (opens in a new tab) page.

pesde (0.15.0+)

An unofficial release is available on pesde starting from version 0.15.0.
To install blink using pesde, open a terminal in your project directory and run the following commands:

Bash
pesde add --dev pesde/blink
pesde install
Roblox Studio

Blink offers a companion studio plugin which allows you to write and generate files within Studio without the need for external tooling.
The studio plugin can be installed from the Creator Store (opens in a new tab).
Alternatively you can download it from Github Releases (opens in a new tab).

Bytecode

Blink releases also contain bundled bytecode which can be used to run blink.

Downloading Bytecode

You can download the bundled bytecode from Github Releases (opens in a new tab). Once downloaded unzip it into your target directory.

Installing Lune

Blink uses lune as it's runtime enviornment, you can install lune using Rokit:

Bash
rokit add lune

Running bytecode

Open the directory in which you unzipped the bytecode and run the following command:

Bash
lune run init [INPUT] -- [ARGS]