A tool to assist editing sprite metadata for importing into any game engine.
Make sure you've installed Deno 2: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/getting_started/installation/. If you have used node, you'll find deno very familiar. If you have not used node, it might be worth going through a tutorial or two of either node (JS/TS) or deno (just TS) to familiarize yourself.
Unlike node, deno will pull in all its dependencies at build time so there's no additional installation steps.
The Sprite-Deet-App is a web app, which will live in the src with app.ts as the entry point.
To use it though, you need a server so there is a lightweight server with hot reloading enabled in main.ts.
Though deno has a typescript-enabled runtime, browsers do not, so the typescript code needs to be transpiled to jvascript to work in the browser.
So the code the browser uses actually lives in public/js/bundle.js.
Realistically you shouldn't have to touch that file, but I add logging in there some times when debugging since it'll go away the next time its transpiled.
This also means that if you make a change to the typescript and do not transpile, your change will not be picked up.
The main command is deno run dev.
This will start the deno server, and set up the watcher for changes to the typescript and/or html.
If you add a file that needs watching, you'll want to update the watcher line in main.ts accordingly.
You can check in deno.json for what deno run dev does if you're curious.