[Discussion] Idea's related to spliting the code

[mdziczkowski]

Hey Nicolas.

I wanted to give you some ideas that may help you spliting the code and make it communicate with each other.

• If you create an API that use REST (as an communication protocol in between the parts) then it would make you easier to split it into a smaller modules

• the client should contain only the main program (small size) that would:

• display the main interface

• handle the connections and communication with the server

• interpreting the data

All game specific functions and resources should remain on the server side to don't cause following (with is common with online games that download all data to the client side):

• "eating up" too much client's internet brandwith
• "eating up" too much client's device resources (memory, storage, CPU, etc.)

Both above would decrease the user's experience and may cause that the game (or in worse scenario: the device) become uresponsive

• too long load of TS2

Adventages

• faster update
• small size if the client
• easier development due smaller parts of code to work with

Side notes:

I see that the work on v0.7 goes in the correct direction and I'm sure it will make the development much easier 🙂

I'm curious if there would be a good idea to use React for some UI parts 🤔

[pedromorgan]

I think there a golang server that does this..

Are u a pyqt dev.. interestingly i checkout the code the other night so helping this project along is still my curious.. (mainly simulating a real railway .. the heart of wales line)

[npiganeau]

Hi @mdziczkowski ,

As said by @pedromorgan , this is already the case.

From v0.7 onwards, the code in this repo is only the client + the editor (because they share a lot of code, though they should be separate in an ideal world).
The server is in the ts2-sim-server repo, and can be connected by several clients at once for multiplayer experience.

The protocol used between the server and the client is not REST but websocket, because we need it to be both fast and bidirectional. Check https://github.com/ts2/ts2-sim-server/blob/master/docs/ts2-technical-manual.adoc for the complete explanation of the architecture and the protocol.

[pedromorgan]

Can we play with mqtt ??

[pedromorgan]

we need to setup some RPI's with a simulator live ;-)) maybe an rpi stack here...

• but mqtt is kinda cool

kinda working its way into modelling with arduino and rpi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b56dqJHcfVs

[mdziczkowski]

Yea, but MQTT has still a long way to go until reaching perfection...

@pedromorgan Not exactly pyqt developer, but I write some code in python3