XIV GEAR PLANNER

• Goal is to create a gear planning application that can be used to plan raid group progression and gear planning.

Status

Initial structure of website being created

• Static Creation Management (30%)
  • Building the page to create and add static creation
• Import Players (70%)
• View gear (40%)
• Import gear sets (50%)
  • Able to import directly from lodestone
  • Will only import matching with current job sets currently.
  • Possible switching of gear sets to be added at a later time.
• Design (40%)

Technologies

• Java Spring Boot Web Application
• Using MySQL database backend
• Using ES6 compliant Javascript
• JSON output api to be further developed
• WebPack backend for javascript module support
• Use of Selenium WebDriver for parsing utilities.
  • Integrated with Chrome browser to take fully rendered page data and manipulate as needed.

#Known issues

• Nothing works at all :D
• Ok some things work now, but its mostly a mess still.

#Resources used for data https://github.com/viion/ffxiv-datamining http://xivdb.com

#Setup

1. Clone/Fork repository

2. Load/Install Maven dependencies

3. NPM Setup

   • Setup NPM using npm install command from command line
   • Once install completed you can auto compire js files using npm run watch
   • Webpack settings are stored in webpack.config.js

4. MySQL server setup

   • Install Mysql server for your platform.
   • Mac / Windows / Linux (Install Guides)
   • Setup a username/ password account and a database
   • Copy example.properties and change the name to application.properties
     • Modify these settings to watch your system setup and database naming.

5. Spring Setup

   • JDK will need to be installed to setup on system.
   • Ensure you update this spring.devtools.restart.additional-paths if you plan on using the dev tools.
   • ChromeDriver (Selenium) install and setup driver location.
     • Location path must be specified in the application.properties file.