TaurusDecks

A simple app for the kids to organize their Pokémon cards into locations. They can search for a card with its number and the Pokémon's name, and specify its location (e.g., which deck, which binder, which box), finish, condition, and any notes, and add it to a database.

Setup

1. Install Git if it's not already on your computer and
2. Install Node.js (any recent version)
3. In your command prompt (Terminal app in macOS, Command Prompt or Git Bash in Windows, xterm in Linux, etc.), run git clone https://github.com/fasiha/TaurusDecks.git to clone this repository
4. cd TaurusDecks to enter into the directory Git just created
5. npm i to install dependencies with npm which Node.js installed; if you're like me and you prefer pnpm to save disk space, run npx pnpm i (npx was installed by Node.js too)
6. Download a recent release of Pokemon TCG Data, unzip it, rename the directory pokemon-tcg-data, and drop it into this TaurusDecks directory
7. Run npm run tcg:combine to bundle all the TCG data into a single file for Taurus Decks
8. Run npm run dev to start the web server and open the URL it tells you!

Tech

This is an Astro app built with Preact. Astro also hosts the Express.js webserver that stores the data in SQLite. We use the fantastic Pokemon TCG Data directory.

Notes

For each card:

• card identifier
• number we own
• their locations
• notes?
• finishes

Finish has a few different types:

• normal
• holographic
• reverse-holographic