It’s been a bit over a month since my last post and I was asked why I stopped writing all of a sudden. Well, the answer to that is, I haven’t. I just haven’t posted an article yet because I’ve been pretty busy working in a bunch of different things. between those things are several articles for the JS 101 series, some updates that have been taking place on the Stardew Valley Progress Tracker, Webtricks and the Json2Type extension, plus an additional old project I’m also re-vamping so… yeah I just decided to toss all my personal projects in the same quarter of the year. But hey, let me give y’all a rollover of what’s coming up next (in case anyone is interested).
TL;DR
- I haven’t disappeared, just been busy with side projects and writing drafts!
- JS 101 Series: New article on JavaScript operators coming soon, followed by one on loops.
- Stardew Valley Progress Tracker: Big update in the works! new features, layout updates, and already preparing for 1.7 support.
- Webtricks: We hit 30k hits/month!!!, added new features, and testing setup.
- Json2Type Extension: Still a WIP, adding better handling for JSON edge-cases and planning to make it available to more stores.
- One more mystery project might drop before the end of the year.
JS 101 Series:
I’m almost done writing the next article: JavaScript 101: How JS uses operators? which should be released early next week, followed up by JavaScript 101: Working with Loops and Iterations
SVPT:
The Stardew valley progress tracker is finally being revamped and updated to support the latest version of the game and it is also getting a lot of features that were not previously available. If you’re curious to know what is going on with it, feel free to take a look at the repo. Or take a look at the article that will be coming up early December in which I’ll be diving a bit more into the changes and new features available, other than that you can take a look at this article regarding the creation of the project or this article on some updates that came up the last time it got updated.
But a quick list of updates on it are here:
- Upgraded the Teact version from 16 to 19^
- Added support for the latest version of the game
- Updated the Level layout to match the in-game layout
- Adding a better achievement visualization to help track the perfection achievement.
- And much, much more!
Webtricks:
Webtricks reached 30k hits/month in the project, a couple of stars, and the first contributor! It might not be a lot, but this actually made me really happy. It shows that the project works, and it is being used in some projects, which hopefully will be increasing over time. For now, we have some additional features added to the social share module, among others, and we are introducing tests and a testing pipeline to help prevent issues when modifying the scripts. let’s see how far this silly little project goes :D!
Json2Type VS Code Extension:
This is still a “WIP” project. I’ve been adding tests and some minor updates to allow the extension to handle JSONs in a better way, as well as for it to work even with trailing commas and other inconsistencies that may make the JSON invalid. This will still get some more updates before the EOY. One of them is that I want to add the module in the store for cursor and others, rather than only in the VS Code store, so keep an eye out for an article or announcement about it!
Wrap-up
That’s pretty much it! I do have one more small project I’m dusting off, nothing fancy, just something I want to update so it doesn’t feel too dated. We’ll see if that gets released by the end of the year or early next. Thanks for reading, and if you made it this far, I really appreciate it!
