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WeakAuras2
World of Warcraft addon that provides a powerful framework to display customizable graphics on your screen.
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I love to code. I find my work incredibly enjoyable and rewarding, and after the workday ends I often hack on a hobby project for a few hours in the evening trying to learn something new. So you can imagine when I, as a new player (noob) to WoW, discovered that I could write code that would assist my teammates and I in our quest to defeat the toughest bosses the game has to offer, I was pretty darn excited. Let me tell you about a little program called WeakAuras.
If you have a React background, this pattern is probably immediately recognizable to you. You can draw the following parallels between these functions and parts of the old React component lifecycle:
WoW's UI API is written in Lua. If you aren't familiar, Lua is a great little scripting language built on top of C, designed to be embedded into larger pieces of software. You can even, thanks to web assembly, run it in the browser. It has some quirks that take some getting used to (Lua's Arrays start at index 1 👀), but by and large it's great at what it does and can be found everywhere in computer game UIs.