Complete rewrite of the Utopia Bot using MongoDB and TypeScript (instead of JSON files and JavaScript... hell, that was a mess).

Requirements:

• Node.js and npm (I use Node v12.16.0 and npm v6.14.3)
• MongoDB
• TypeScript (I use TypeScript 3.8.3)

Optional:

• webpack (used for compiling in production, I use v4.16.0)
• For the imageplotting:
  • Python 3+ and pip (I use Python 3.6.8 and pip 19.3.1)
  • Pillow (Python Image library, I used v6.2.1)
  • Requests (I use 2.22.0)

A more detailed list with all additional dev-dependencies and more can be found in the files package.json and package-lock.json (Node) and requirements.txt (Python)

First of all you should rename the example-config.json in /src/static/ to config.json and fill out the fields. The names are mostly self-explainatory. If you don't know what you should do with the dbl object, leave it as it is. It's only needed for the voting streaks.

After that run npm install in the command line.

You have two options when compiling the code:

• Use webpack and generate one bundled up file, which contains all the code (hard to debug runtime errors, so I suggest not using that, this is for me when deploying the app). Before you compile it, you need to create a second config file called config.prod.json in the same folder as config.json. For testing you can just paste the data of your config.json in the config.prod.json. After you have done that, you can compile and run the project using webpack && node dist/bundle.js.

• Use the default TypeScript compiler: This will compile each TypeScript file to a corresponding JavaScript file (and a definition file *.d.ts but you can ignore these). This should not be used during production but makes it much easier to debug when testing. In order to get that, run tsc && node dist/index.js.
  Note: When debugging, the errors will be thrown in the JavaScript files so you have to look there and afterwards edit the TypeScript files

Another Note when editing the Python files: The main files are in /imageplotting/ but the version the compiled programm acesses is in /dist/ as well (it's marked as Generated for the GitHub linguist and the whole /dist folder won't get pushed). This means: If you edit the Python files, do this in /imageplotting/ and copy them into /dist/ before running the program.