node.js data "provider" ?

[rom1504]

I think it would be useful to have a javascript provider for node.js users of this library.
For example it might provide indexes and function using these indexes to find blocks by name (something like this https://github.com/PrismarineJS/minecraft-data/blob/master/bin/wiki_extractor/lib/find_item_object_by_name.js)

That way users of that library wouldn't have to build the index themselves every time (see #14 (comment) )

The problem is minecraft-data should stay a language interdependent library imho. Does that mean that "data provider" should still be in this repo and other language users would just not use them or should there be a "node-minecraft-data" repo that would depend on this repo and provide these indexer and all ?

I also thought about simply putting that provider inside mineflayer, but the thing is minecraft-data will be used by projects not using mineflayer (see PrismarineJS/prismarine-server#23)

The advantage of a node-minecraft-data provider is would provide an example of how to read the data, so that other people using other languages could do that kind of providers too if they want (for example a python-minecraft-data )

What do you think ?

[rom1504]

Started there https://github.com/PrismarineJS/node-minecraft-data
Not sure yet how useful it will be. I'm going to try to add most use cases of .blocks and .items in mineflayer and other projects to see if that's enough to make it useful.

[rom1504]

Used in mineflayer.
Allows for indexing and let people implement that in their language.