LU-Explorer

General

This project was generated with Angular CLI.

Prerequisites

• git
• npm to build the app
• cargo to build the API server
• A copy of a LEGO Universe client.

Development setup

Generally, LU-Explorer needs a datasource, which is provided by the Paradox Server. That server provides the data from the game database to the web interface, which makes it a core component of this app.

This needs a paradox.toml config file in the working directory – a minimal example is provided here. The most important part is to point the explorer_spa key to the docs folder in this repo and the cdclient and locale key to a copy of CDClient.fdb and locale.xml respectively.

1. install npm and cargo (via https://rustup.rs)

2. install the API server binary with

   $ cargo install --git https://github.com/Xiphoseer/lu-res-api-server.git --branch main
   

3. Then, clone this repo and create lu-res and client folders next to it

   $ git clone https://github.com/Xiphoseer/lu-explorer.git
   $ mkdir lu-res client
   

4. Put at least locale/locale.xml and res/cdclient.fdb from an LU client into this client folder
5. You can now build the lu-explorer web-app continuously with

   $ cd lu-explorer
   $ npm install
   $ ng build --watch
   

6. Finally, run the API server, which will also serve the web-app

   $ RUST_LOG=info paradox-server
   

For now, you need to restart that server whenever you change the lu-explorer source. (Issue #1)

Minimal setup

The alternative is to:

1. point data.apiUrl in src/environments/environment.ts to an existing API server.
2. point /lu-res in src/proxy.conf.json to a matching version of lu-res.

Then run

$ npm install
$ ng serve

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the docs/ directory. Use the --configuration production flag for a production build. For building to github pages also use --base-href=/lu-explorer/.

Usually, the ng build --configuration production command is used.

Running unit tests

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.