GlovePIE VS scalajs-react

I tried to use that program years ago, wasn't really satisfied. I believe there's a program that will let you use the keyboard as a... keyboard, I guess. https://github.com/Ravbug/GlovePIE

In theory you could use GlovePIE to map one of the keyboards to buttons in a virtual joystick.

I use GlovePIE to get around most of those. It's annoying that I have to set that up in the first place, but it works well.

The more boring way is install GlovePIE (see https://github.com/Ravbug/GlovePIE for an preservation archive site as the original site has fallen into disrepair) & use an IR sensor bar (like the original Wii sensor bar, which is just a set of 2 IR transmitters that the Wii used as a fixed reference point) to use it as an HID, like a mouse.

https://github.com/Ravbug/GlovePIE i use a software called glovepie to interpret MIDI inputs as keyboard presses. with this software you can use any MIDI device to emulate keyboards, mice, controllers, or whatever you want. here is my script that i created to use my piano as input for Lunatic Rave 2 and similar rhythm games as an example. There is also a built in GUI based key mapper which is helpful to set up MIDI devices (just press a button on the device and then the button you want to emulate).

Nice. The language looks really nice! I started out with GlovePIE (site went down about 1-2 years ago) (image). It was more a hotkey scripting/assigning language, allowing multiple types of syntax (bash or c like). I used it to map my Wii Remote to the keyboard and initially played some games using the classic controller mapped to mouse and keyboard.

You could try using Freepie or Glovepie this is how I bind my wii controllers to PC games.

Check out GlovePie.

You can use GlovePie on windows to have it output MIDI. I have been using it for years now. If you want the script I run for it feel free to DM me.

Just cleaning it to connect it to my PC using Glovepie: https://github.com/Ravbug/GlovePIE/releases/

Then there's scalajs-react, which can be integrated with existing React ecosystem, but it's just sooo compex: macros, 5-6 type parameters, hundreds and hundreds of cryptic types. We decided to stick with TypeScript instead.

Or the OG React Scala.js library: https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react

Japgolly has put a ton of time and care into https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react which is a complete React binding in scalajs. This paired with something like Diode (https://github.com/suzaku-io/diode) and you get a full frontend solution in scalajs.

We've got server-side rendering with scalajs-react and scala-graal. Here's a tutorial if anyone's interested. What's really cool about scala-graal is that it has some pretty cool caching so that even with dynamic inputs, you can render pages in nanoseconds (as opposed to 10+ or even 100+ ms).

You can use React with Scala.js, and also most other common JS libraries. Or you can use a Scala.js specific library like Laminar, which I haven't tried myself but it looks nice.

I don't have a lot of experience with it, but many seem to be very pleased with it. Interop with JS is good and you can use React and other common JS libraries, but there is also Scala.js specific frameworks like Laminar.

https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react is pretty heavily used as well, and fairly active as a project. In short, building it off of that wouldn't be a huge risk over typescript, and might even be a net win in the long run, as you could re-use some stuff from the backend in the front-end.