Frontend Status Store

[wingtkw]

@KalpasWang @sandytang886
Any suggestion on how to store the status in frontend?

e.g. how many cultists & shoggoths left?
user info?
turns left?
that kind of thing

A library that I have used is named jotai
which is a more atomic one compared with redux

https://jotai.org/docs/basics/comparison

[wingtkw]

here is a quick demo on the use of jotai
you may view how it's done in the /feature/frontend/navbar branch

[KalpasWang]

jotai looks good

also one thing, do we need something like react query to manage our server state?
or just manage it manually in jotai,

I haven't used react query, but it's very popular.

[wingtkw]

For managing server state
I use react query before for rest api
And it's quite easy to use

But I guess in our game
We are mostly using socket as well for real time state change and update
So I think socket io client is more appropriate in this case

[KalpasWang]

ok, I see👌

[metalalive]

It is time to document API endpoint to socket.io server, to let frontend people know how to interact with socket.io server.
I will add more detail at here (by editing this comment) tomorrow morning if I have time .

Relevant discussion :

• Ted suggested AsyncAPI to document API endpoints for real-time communication (socket.io in current project)
• Issue #37 , currently the backend app supports 3 socket.io events
  • switch character, set difficulty level, chat message