This is a repository for Voice Controlled Pokémon Battles based off of the client code for Pokémon Showdown.
The project is deployed at https://uifinalproject-client2.onrender.com/. The web application should be run on Chrome.
The local version has been run on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and MacOS Sonoma.
The client requires a build step. Install the latest Node.js (v14 or later), and run node build (on Windows) or ./build (on other OSes) to build after cloning the repository.
After building, open testclient.html located in the play.pokemonshowdown.com directory. This will connect to the main Pokémon Showdown server.
In case the main Pokémon Showdown server is down, you can run and connect the client to a locally hosted server. To do this, clone the Pokémon Showdown server and follow the instructions here to start a local host.
Once the local host is running, you can connect the client by navigating to testclient.html?~~host:port. For example, to connect to a server running locally on port 8000, you can navigate to testclient.html?~~localhost:8000.
For security reasons, browsers don't let other websites control PS, so they can't screw with your account, but it does make it harder to log in on the test client.
The default hack makes you copy/paste the data instead, but if you're refreshing a lot, just add a config/testclient-key.js file, with the contents:
const POKEMON_SHOWDOWN_TESTCLIENT_KEY = 'sid';
The main directory relevant to our project is play.pokemonshowdown.com. Here, the testclient.html file serves the main client for users.
The src directory in pokemonshowdown.com contains the Typescript files that are compiled into Javascript files that define all the functionality for the client upon build.
The js directory in play.pokemonshowdown.com contains the compiled Javascript files as well as the main Javascript files that call the compiled files to create the client. client-battle.js defines how battles operate.