js-rogue-tutorial VS FTXUI

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Made good time on part 8 yesterday and today. This one was pretty fun to piece together. I'm seeing a lot of places I'd like to de-OOP and make more functional, but I'm wanting to stay as close to the original tutorial as possible and maybe do a follow-up series where I refactor things that I don't like as much. GitHub for the complete code of part 8, and then my blog post for the tutorial.

Anyway the tutorial is here and the code is on my github here.

Have part 4 of my typescript adaptation and tutorial done. Code is here and the tutorial post is here.

Finally got Part3 done and adapted to TypeScript after a nightmare week of work keeping me from working on this. Some fun bugs in adapting the tunneling code that didn't show up until the final steps with multiple rooms. I was switching between horizontal and vertical on every iteration of the generator function, making some interesting (but useless) zig-zag hallways. Code is here and I hope to write up my tutorial blog post tomorrow as I hopefully have a light day at work.

Part 1 is up now at https://github.com/bodiddlie/js-rogue-tutorial/tree/Part1. Hoping to get a couple blog posts up for the two parts this weekend.

GitHub repo: ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

Background: I want to make a NES Tetris) clone for the terminal, with full resolution, this is achievable through using this ▀ character, and defining back and foreground color. This would result in a 1x2 pixel and by making the game width 256x120 characters this would provide full resolution. I made some tests, creating my own encoding for the different sprites and optimizing everything, which resulted in very quick printing times, even with a normal terminal. Nearly fast enough for the full 60Hz that the NES has, when printing the whole screen. The fact that i don't need to reprint the background (except maybe a tetris), makes 60Hz a kinda realistic goal. My main concern is, that there could occur kind of a screen tearing effect, which i really want to avoid. AFAIK, ncurses has a way to print the whole "window" with a function call to avoid this issue, however I had a lot of issues when trying to use ncurses to print the entire background and figured, that there are better alternatives. I also tried FTXUI and whilst the experience of giving each "pixel" a fore- and background color was much better, i didn't quite find a way to refresh the screen like ncurses. (i think there is some kind of way with the ScreenInteractive class, but i didn't get that to work, and it seemed like there was not a way to color each pixel. with InteractiveScreen you can make your own components with the whole "text()" thing, but this isn't really what i need)

Try this library for console https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

Depends on which level of "UI" you want. Personally I like https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI , but if you want to do those old TUI things then probably the (n/pd)curses libraries.

I find openMVG very decent, FTXUI might be a good one and nlohmann's json library is also pretty nice. I don't really know of any project that strictly adheres to the core guidelines, except maybe for some of Jason Turner's (sample) projects.

Okay stupid suggestion I know but I've recently been learning the FTX UI library which basically adds a little bit of UI programming to the terminal and it has canvas that lets you plot pixel by pixel.

No affiliation with any ponzi schemes https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI