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React and…The Kitchen Sink?

Scopique April 20, 2022

Strap in, folks, this is going to be a wild ride. Not really. It’s more development talk, so it’s about as wild as a walk in the park, which this project is turning out not to be. I have mentioned that a…

What? Why!? WPF

Scopique April 19, 2022

I am at the point in my Project Galaxy development that I need to have said galaxy generated so I can start building against it. I have done this many, many times in the past, so I have it down to almost…

React and Colyseus – Message Handlers Revisited

Scopique April 18, 2022

This is a follow-up to the previous post regarding my attempts to centralize a React app connection to a Colyseus game server. Earlier I had come up with what I had thought was a great way to manage a connection between a…

React and Firebase – Authentication Blues

Scopique April 18, 2022

Sometimes the easiest stuff takes me 10 times longer to implement than it would for pretty much any other developer out there. Exhibit A: authentication with Google’s Firebase. I have probably written about this before, but regardless I’ll provide a crash course…

React, Firebase, and Node/Express – Parsing a Firebase JWT

Scopique March 15, 2022

Continuing my series on blogging about every line of code I write, today’s topic is one that is pretty critical to creating a working auth system that I don’t have to code. If I were rolling my own auth, I wouldn’t have…

React and Colyseus – Connection State

Scopique March 12, 2022

Now, I might be misunderstanding exactly how these things work, but I was once again testing Colyseus, the Javascript multiplayer game server framework, with React and came across what I assume is a gotcha: maintaining a connection to a server. React’s claim…

Ideas: Revisiting the Market Again

Scopique March 11, 2022

I’ve looked through previous posts and unless I mis-filed it, I cannot find anywhere where I’ve talked about my original thoughts on a dynamic market for this on again, off again space trader game. The original idea was based on supply and…

Adventure Outliner – The Slightly-Different Generation

Scopique March 7, 2022

Hey! Remember this? Probably not, but that’s OK because not only have I remembered for you, but like clockwork, I’m revisiting this project (literally: my archives say the last access of the original project was March of 2021). For the uninitiated, here’s…

When Too Much Freedom is Too Much

Scopique December 9, 2021

I’m pretty sure I’ve written about this particular struggle before: while I can often grasp the mechanical concepts behind a New Thing, whether it’s coding or VFX or whatever, not having an idea of a “best practice” always throws me for a…

React – Simple Search, Results, and Sortable Header

Scopique October 8, 2021

Although it’s now considered bad form to use the table tag in web development, sometimes it’s worth the public ridicule. Responsive layouts are all the rage these days, with users viewing sites on a 4K monitor as well as a relatively tiny…