CoRE for Dummies (How to get started and make your first Piston)

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You may want to skip CoRE and dive directly into webCoRE.

[DEPRECATED THREAD] webCoRE Beta Milestone 1

webCoRE is currently in Beta Milestone 2. As a result, this thread has been deprecated and you should please follow the discussion on this thread instead. Thank you. Exactly one year ago, CoRE was born (v0.0.000.20160429). It was meant to replace the gap that bravenel’s Rule Machine left behind when it was withdrew from the SmartThings platform on April 27th, 2016 (2 days earlier). It took 45 days to make it to Beta Milestone 1 and eventually made it to a (final) Release Candidate stage on September 20th, 2016. Soon after, CoRE has reached its maximum code size, pushing ST to the max. Partly because CoRE was no longer able to keep adding features and improvements, and partly because the shortcomings of not being able to backup pistons, on October 28th, 2016, webCoRE was born. Coincidental…