Pokedex.org

An index of Pokémon, built as a client-side JavaScript webapp. Powered by ServiceWorker, PouchDB, virtual-dom, and web workers.

Building up the database via PokéAPI

This site uses data provided by PokéAPI. To build up the database, you'll need to run:

./node_modules/.bin/babel-node bin/build-monsters-database.js
./node_modules/.bin/babel-node bin/build-descriptions-database.js
./node_modules/.bin/babel-node ... # there are several of these

Some of the build scripts pull from src/js/shared/data (which contains some files that I had to build myself by scraping Bulbapedia), whereas the main ones pull from the live PokeAPI. (I never got the local PokeAPI working correctly, so I just pulled from the remote.)

Developing

Start a dev server on localhost:9000:

npm run serve

To disable ServiceWorker:

NODE_ENV=testing npm run serve

Building

npm run build

This will write files to www/.

Credits

Thanks to PokeAPI and Bulbapedia for the Pokémon data, and of course to Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company for making such an awesome series of games.