robo-code/robocode : Build the best - destroy the rest!

Robocode is a programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks in Java or .NET. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen.

If you are like me, you just started writing Authotkey scripts without ever really taking the time to learn the language properly. This blog post contains some scripts and tools to help you try make some sense of what is going on.

avajs/ava : 🚀 Testing can be a drag. AVA helps you get it done.

A concurrent test runner from the Andromeda galaxy. If I was to stray from Jasmine then it could only be for a project Sindre Sorhus is working on :) The screenshots on the project site promised extensive assertion failure output with clean stack traces and built-in Promise, async/await, Observable and React component support. So I tried it out and yup, AVA delivered.

Get Started

# Install
npm init ava

# Run tests
npx ava --watch --verbose

Not nearly as confusing as it is in JavaScript.

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

bool mach = Regex.IsMatch("input", @"\w+", RegexOptions.None);
Match match = Regex.Match("input", @"\w+");
IReadOnlyList<Match> matches = Regex.Matches("input", @"\w+");
string result = Regex.Replace("input", @"(\w+)", "$1");

vuejs/vue : Vue.js is a progressive, incrementally-adoptable JavaScript framework for building UI on the web.

Why Vue

• 100k+ ⭐: So many people can’t be wrong
• Declarative rendering with a cool, terse syntax
• Low learning curve
• Reactive and composable view components
• Optional official vue-router and vuex (statemanagement)
• @vue/cli: Scaffold project with optional support for TypeScript, PWA, CSS Pre-processors, Linters, Tests, …
• Automatic dependency tracking
• Virtual DOM
• Supports IE9+

Moment.js is a legacy project, now in maintenance mode. In most cases, you should choose a different library.
See some alternatives at the end of this post.

Proceed at your own peril

Moment.js is a mutable wrapper with a fluent interface for the native JavaScript date object (property _d). Use .toDate() to convert back to a JavaScript date.

Update for Husky v9
A lot has changed in Husky since this blog post. See the 2024 update of this article instead!

Avoid pushing changes that break the build with githooks and Husky.

typicode/husky : 🐺 Git hooks made easy