Dev day 1

14 Nov 2023

Excited to have actually started writing some code!

I’m naturally far more interested to work on the server side stuff, but since I want to get something delivered I thought that I should probably start on the UI first instead.

This game will be based around a map so I was trying to decide between using Leaflet or Mapbox. I’ve used Leaflet before, and I know its solid and open source but after doing some reading, it looks like Mapbox GL has got it beat for performance. This post convinced me to go for Mapbox, although its worth pointing out that the author works for Mapbox.

After some fighting with VueJs and realising that my map had to have a height as well as a width I’ve managed to animate a marker moving from one spot to another in X amount of time.

It’s a very small step, but its something.