bitburner VS bitburner-scripts

Bitburner which is available on steam or web which is more sci fi/hacking themed. it's a very complex life loop game that involves coding heavily. There is a pseudo code script in the game in which you can write programs to hack others and eventually restart with cybernetic implants. You can even ditch the pseudo script and code directly in java in the game. The end game is quite fun and fulfilling. I haven't even gotten through it yet.

Nope, ports communicate "in RAM" only, i.e. when you close and re-open the game (or complete a BitNode [and maybe also if you install augs? Don't know]) they're cleared. Ports can be accessed via ns.writePort() and ns.peek() or ns.readPort() and be cleared manually with ns.clearPort(). The docs have syntax and description of all the in-game functions.

From the source code:

3.https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner (optional, for extra practice and motivation)

Here's a list of functions if you want to take a look at what's available. https://github.com/danielyxie/bitburner/blob/dev/markdown/bitburner.ns.md

RTFM for [ns.ps()](https://github.com/danielyxie/bitburner/blob/dev/markdown/bitburner.ns.ps.md) and ns.killall() ;)

Bitburner.

Looking at the Warehouse API, the only way to get information on a product is to already know the product name. However if I, for example, restart my corp script after augment installs with a corporation already running, I wouldn't have any of my product names in memory. I know that, given that you can only ever have at most 5 products at a time, I could just create a static list of 5 product names and infer my current production from there but it would be nice to not have to do that and be able to run a function like getProducts that would pull a dictionary/list of the current products for me. I'm generally trying to avoid coding w/ try/catch blocks so something like that would be nice.

However, if you have access to formulas at whatever time you're running this script, you can try fitting in the ns.Formulas.growPercent(target, maxGrowThreads, ns.getPlayer()) method.

I'll submit it to bitburner-scripts once I test it.

There's always auto-win.js if you want to skip the boring part between the beginning and the end.

Too late, I already came across https://github.com/bitburner-official/bitburner-scripts — My version of custom-stats.js wasn't running for the screenshot.

There are some neat official example scripts to be found at https://github.com/bitburner-official/bitburner-scripts, which you can use as-is, expand upon, or use as learning material.

You can find an official example script doing exactly this at https://github.com/bitburner-official/bitburner-scripts, look for monitor.js. And of course feel free to check out the other scripts as well, even if the script's functionality isn't what you're looking for, I often find inspiration or learn new things from checking out other people's scripts.

If you're an impatient person like I am, and wanna know what's happening on a server that you're targeting, and to give an idea of if anything is happening the following is super super handy for that monitor.js

Script looks good. Maybe for a first upgrade you can transition from using a const at the top to using args to pass in the value you want to use. You can start simple with just using ns.args[0] so when you call your script like “run myscript.js 1000000000” it will run till that number. If you wanted to get fancy you could use ns.flags like in this script to set a default value or have like 1 flag to make it a constant target and another flag to make it only spend some percentage of your current cash.

lastly just to show a use case that i find very helpful this is a snippet from hydroflame's github scripts