UI Refactor

diff from last devlog to this one

I refactored the Hadronize UI code. Rather than one giant 570-line file that handled the quark positioning, state tracking, mouse movement, and game loop, I split the code into four different files, each dedicated to one specific thing, with an average line count of ~154 (191, 184, 111, and 132, respectively). This makes the codebase way more maintainable and easy to work in.

I also deduplicated most of the main game loop code. Before, I had just copied the entire content of the executeTurn() function, pasted it into the UI code, and customized it until the logic code correctly interfaced with the UI. Maintaining two separate functions that do basically the same thing is bad practice, so today I came up with an alternative solution: adding a bunch of “hooks” as optional parameters, which are just functions that the executeTurn() function runs at specific stages. In a CLI game, the hooks are never provided to the function, so they’re never run and nothing changes. But the UI code does provide hooks, to do things like trigger re-renders. This way, the same code can be reused for two different use cases (CLI and UI).

Next Steps

There’s still more refactoring to do, but I don’t think that I’ll do any more major restructuring.