rpg-tool

A multiplayer rpg mapping tool

Setup

• Install Node and NPM

• Install Rust

  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

• Clone this repo

  git clone http://www.github.com/justinwash/rpg-tool

• Install PostgreSQL

  brew install postgresql

• Install the diesel cli

  brew install diesel

• cd into rpg-tool/server and run cargo build

  Chances are high you'll run into some issues here if you've never worked with rust before. Things like xcode-tools or make not being installed, etc. Google the error messages until it compiles successfully (or ask me for help).

• Start up the rust server with cargo run

• cd into rpg-tool/client and run npm install

• Start up the react client with npm start

Development

When working you won't want to have to recompile your server manually every time you make a change.

• Install the watch command for Cargo

  cargo install cargo-watch

• Then when starting up the project run (in two separate terminal tabs)

  npm start in /client

  cargo watch -i .gitignore -i "target/*" -s "cargo run" in /server

  This tells cargo to recompile your rust project on save, and since npm sym-links to the /target/pkg directory it will also trigger a refresh of the react dev server and refresh your browser