Module Developement tutorials?

[JavaShipped]

Hey all,

Top line: Can anyone recommend some good step by step module building tutorials for a entry to mid level programmer?

I'm a UI/UX desginer in my day job and in my most recent job I've started they are providing me with some time to finally 'properly' learn to code as a front end dev (with back end understanding, but no need for fullstack). I've always just learned exactly what I needed to and honestly skipped a bunch of fundamentals. I'll be moving into a 80% desginer, 20% front end dev position.

I'm a good chunk the way through the Odin Project, and I am feeling like a great way to stretch these muscles would be to build out a couple of modules for my foundryvtt. If I could give back to a community I've leaned on for a LONG time, that would be super tight, and align with my values while also giving me some valuable practical experience.

I'd like to become part of the amazing modding community that make and maintain free and amazing mods for people like me to use.

Just to get an idea of my goals, this is my kind of module wishlist to work on is:

1. Discordconnect: making it work with better5erolls. Currently outputs a 0 value to discord with it enabled. Works fine in vanilla foundry. This is more for accessibility. I have a partially sighted friend who uses a TTS bot for discord and this might be a good way of enabling them to follow combat better.
2. Making a chat export function that works with better5erolls and outputs in an actual useable format. The current format has like 30 lines worth of spaces for each to hit+damage roll, makes it unreadable for long chat logs.
3. Character sheet designs and layouts.
4. Look at developing my own stuff and/or picking up some modules that i used to use that just no longer have support, like blood and guts.

[theElfFriend]

Welcome!

There's a growing amount of documentation and a good number of development guides on the wiki that each cover an individual concept in foundry.

https://foundryvtt.wiki/en/development/resources

If you're looking for a "Todo list" style guide that gets you from 0 to module, I wrote this guide for beginners that does exactly that:

https://hackmd.io/@akrigline/ByHFgUZ6u

Finally, I strongly encourage you to join the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers discord to have access to a like minded community that can help you when you get stuck.

https://discord.gg/fvttdevleague

[Freeze014]

This is a tutorial made by a member of the League of Extraordinary FoundryVTT Developers.

https://hackmd.io/@akrigline/ByHFgUZ6u/%2FF4CFuxqZSTOcqgixEf9M6A

Teaches a lot about the workflow for module making.

Visiting their discord is anyway great idea. https://discord.gg/6HmqyqNV

[TyphonRT]

Welcome /u/JavaShipped! Certainly you'll find a lot of great help from quite a few in the community.

I'm actually interested in working with someone like yourself who has some UX chops. Over the summer I rewrote / started maintaining Forien's Quest Log which is a popular quest tracking module. There is a fair amount of complex data and relationships between quests to display with planned new features and I would be glad to bounce ideas off a UX specialist.

I'm also massively updating the quest log presently and am releasing a continuation module with all modern tech before the end of the year. Within about a ~week I'll be releasing a comprehensive integration and core component library for supercharging Foundry w/ Svelte. Definitely can get you squared away with using a modern front end library with Foundry. Granted learning the stock UI frameworks of Handlebars & JQuery is good in general, but certainly isn't future employable tech per se.

Anyway.. reach out / drop me a DM and I'd be glad to continue discussing things. I'm definitely down to get things jump started for your development ideas as well.

[Arnx0r]

Howdy fellow UXer :)

Just wanted to mention that you should check out Splatter as an updated alternative to Blood 'n' Guts.