react-hexlife

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Inspiration

I tried to make a bee-themed RTS. I failed, but this came out of it.

What it does

Shows you mesmerizing, complex, non-repeating patterns generated with a set of simple rules. It's amazing how such a simple set of rules can give you something like this.

How I built it

React.js, all the way. Credits to https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-hex. Hexagons are drawn as svg. A generator served as the data source for the game board.

Challenges I ran into

Learning react in one day.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Learning React in one day.

What I learned

It's important to write clean code and write code with the future in mind. I went through a few dozen hexagon-drawing libraries, and only one was simple, clean, and pretty enough for me to adapt it.