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Awesome project!

A topic by Alex created Aug 10, 2021 Views: 141 Replies: 1
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Just wanted to drop in and say good job on this! It's a really cool idea for a project, and I'm excited to see where you take it. The dialog builder alone is worth it, but all the other stuff combined with the ability to collaborate with a remote database is killer :D

...and in case you were open to unsolicited ideas, I got a few:

  • A spreadsheet/table editor, like CastleDB (minus the tilemap editor). While it's possible to accomplish the same type of data entry via misc/items, the UI concept of tables is much easier when working with a lot of data
  • CLI interface (at least for export) to work more easily with automated builds, CI/CD, etc

Anyways, this project has a lot of potential, so keep up the good work!!

Developer

Hello Alex! Thank you very much for the words, and support!!! And I really value feedback and ideas!

  • A spreadsheet/table editor: I started this project as an actual table/db editor, and then I hated it! I agree it might be cumbersome to work with large set of data. To make it easier I added “human JSON” language and I’m currently considering adding TOML support as well. Of course the experience is totally different than a visual UI excel-like table editor. But having a text based approach is really really appreciated specially when working with multilevel nested objects without any set schema.

However, I can definitely imagine a complementary ‘table editor’ module, a new section that each document represents a single level 2d grid . This would be especially useful for data entry on a schema based db. First row would determine the columns and all following rows would be plain data. I like it!

  • CLI interface: This is interesting, I would need to do some research , but I think it may not be so trivial because most of the action is performed in the browser…

Thanks again!