At this point, this project is abandoned. It served its purpose as a personal introduction to nodejs/react/typescript, but would require significant website reworks to be adaptable to fit the design requirements.

I'm definitely interested in coming back to this project with fresh eyes and a broader set of skills at some point in the future.

SIMVIEW WEB SERVER

might not work on anything beyond nodejs v20.5.1. had issues with the initial v20.6.1 release

configure login information for postgresql server in simview/.env

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://user:pass@ip:port/table_name"

usage for dev:

$ <init corepack>
$ corepack yarn install
$ corepack yarn pnpify prisma db push # if db is not initialized
$ corepack yarn dev

add contents of this page into simview/src/utils/talentData.ts as export const talentData

this process will get automated eventually, but it's hard, and downloading a single file occasionally is not.

PERSISTENT WORKER

symlink or move a simc binary to this level of the repository

usage for dev:

$ <init corepack>
$ corepack yarn install
$ corepack yarn dev

Features

• End-to-end sim generation and execution via Create
• Crude sim result visualizations with talent-based filtering options in Single Sim
• All Sims scatter plot for all data in the Set/Sim/F-Combination selection.
• Selected Sims scatter plot for all data in selected mean dps interval on All Sims chart.
• Text info on selected points for All Sims/Selected Sims selections
• Top 12 Talent Trees in Selected Sims selection
• Hamburger Menu Talent Tree filter shows only sims with talent x if blue, and without talent x if red. Requires reselecting the Sim Selection to update filter.

Issues

• It's just really slow
• A lot of first-time code
• Likely scales poorly to different display sizes.

Things I Like

• the talent tree charts are AWESOME and very pretty (have some other things i'd like to add to them though)
• end-to-end running sims works pretty well
• good learning experience, javascript is kinda horrible, and I only really used Typescript capabilities toward the end for View and derived classes
• the scatter plots look pretty ok
• oh the capability to write static pages in markdown is kinda cool as well

Things I Don't Like

• its slow
• it feels like i was just writing so many map, reduce and filter callbacks.
• probably do more data transformation on the worker to save client and server time, at the cost of more code on the worker (boo)
• worker too big, so writing a different worker would SUCK
• the scatter plots aren't very useful
• i ignored a lot of useful tools while early on in js/ts/react growing pains

TODO (no particular order):

• draw icons on talent trees
• support choice ndoes on talent trees
• persistent worker needs to be able to accept no F-combinations or no R- combinations. currently, processing fails.
• improve performance of charts
• support multiple talent tree versions simultaneously
• improve performance across the board by limiting tasks performed by webserver
• limit unnecessary component renders in the current composite bar chart state model
• use binned bar charts instead of scatter plot
• merge Results[] for Sims[] into Results[] for Set and expire the Results[] for Sims[]

Cool possibilities:

• would replacing the charts with some wasm system be more performant?
• dynamic workers, where a worker spawns a processes which is single task or a queue of tasks and then despawns
• good ™️ talent tree generation that supports the current input model better
• multi-sim view that supports n>1 selections of sims with equivalent fr- combinations and performs run-to-run analysis