feather-and-ink

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Background

Feather&Ink is a visualization tool for your pen&paper character in the world of Aborea. It uses a stack of React.js, Electron and SQLite 3.0.

Features

Feather&Ink provides the following features:

Getting Started

You can get started with Feather&Ink by downloading the corresponding app from the release.

Alternatively you can set up a local development environment.

Development Environment (Local)

System Requirements

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed:

Initializing all the packages

Feather&Ink is using a monorepo with multiple packages. To initialize all the packages on a local development environment

  1. Execute the following commands in the project root folder:
yarn install

This will install all the required dependencies.

  1. Run the development command to start the app:
yarn run dev
  1. Building the binary:
yarn run build-local

This will build the execetable for your operating system.

Version 0.1.2-alpha

Feather&Ink is currently in its version 0.1.2-alpha, so it’s currently under active development. There are a lot of features, that are missing or aren’t fully implemented. We are currently trying to fix those issues as soon as possible.

Create a bug report

If you see an error message or run into an issue, please create bug report. This effort is valued and helps all Feather&Ink users.

Submit a feature request

If you have an idea, or you’re missing a capability that would make development easier and more robust, please Submit feature request.

If a similar feature request already exists, don’t forget to leave a “+1”. If you add some more information such as your thoughts and vision about the feature, your comments will be embraced warmly :)

Contributing

Feather&Ink is an open-source project. We are committed to a fully transparent development process and appreciate highly any contributions. Whether you are helping us fix bugs, proposing new features, improving our documentation or spreading the word - we would love to have you as part of the Feather&Ink community.