dynMap 2.0: Major expansion of base functionality

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Intro

Hi @ornato-t,
A few months back I came across your project when looking for resources to support my ongoing Descent Into Avernus campaign. Being a big fan of the Alexandrian remix, I was very happy to come across the good work you've done here. As I played around with the project locally, I started making small improvements to practice Vue, as I'm usually a React guy. This quickly snowballed into a small side-project, the result of which is this PR.
If you're interested, I'd love to collaborate on this and polish the project a bit more. Look through the changes I've made and let me know your thoughts.

New Stuff

Updated UI

Elturel Pointcrawl Map with Key'd Nodes

Random Encounters

Random Building & NPC Generators

Quest Board System

[ornato-t]

HOLY. COW.

Your work is beyond impressive, great stuff!

This was my first web dev project ever and looking back at the code I am a bit horrified by some of the choices I made... I haven't looked back at this repo for a good while now, because my group fell apart little over a year ago and we never got to finish the campaign, however I am extremely pleased to hear that someone else was able to use it for their own campaign.

So, let me quickly go over your modifications and add some comments:

Updated UI

Really like the general vibe, the new location page style and the buttons. Great colour choices too. The only thing I am not too fond of here is the font. While it looks very hellyish, I personally have a bit of a hard time reading it. It might not be the best pick accessibility-wise.

Elturel point crawl

I personally didn't like the way the Remix had structured the Elturel section + my party had already begun exploring the city when I found out about the Remix, so I never got the chance to try the point crawl myself, but the way you structured it looks awesome and would probably work pretty well.

Elturel random encounters

Not much to say here, other than the previous comments about the font. Looks sick, but a bit hard to read. Good reference though, nice to always have under your eyes.

Random generators

Very good thinking on this one. If I might suggest a possible upgrade, it could be beneficial to add the possibility of persisting generated buildings and NPCs. Either through the browser localstorage (easier) or by downloading and uploading some JSON file. Either way, players might be interesting in visiting a random location more than once, or you as a DM might want to have some reference of all the NPCs that you have already introduced.

Quest board

I didn't get the chance to try this one... The /player/data directory gets gitignore'd away, so it never got pushed to your repo. I'd love to have a look if you could upload your quest file somewhere else, such as the global /data directory.
Looking at the image you have uploaded, the feature looks fine and is probably a something nice to have, especially for players who look at the map very often. Not that useful to my party, as we were more of the pen&paper kind of guys, but that's just preferences.

Final thoughts

I love the work you have done and will definitely be merging it (just give me a few days to properly test it and ensure everything works). I would even consider doing another round of "advertising" on the campaign subreddit and the remix's Discord, I think these new features are well worth it.

What were you thinking about when you said you were interested in collaborating and "polishing the project"? Because I am going to be honest, since I am no longer using this for my own campaigns I am not too keen on spending too many hours adding additional features to it.

At any rate, thank you so much for the work you have done and for having brought it to my attention, amazing job.