Today, I ended up doing more backend setup than what I had expected to do today, in that, after executing the terminal commands to set up the project environment, there were created two files, namely package.json and tsconfig.json, totaling over a thousand lines of configurations. Although mostly being boilerplate, the creation of the two files marked a huge milestone for me in the sense that the project had now become a TypeScript-based one rather than the earlier looser one. After doing that, I then proceeded into the main codebase to modify main.tsx by refactoring the old code. However, my major achievement was the completion of hands.ts, which is one of the harder pieces of codes in the project, in that it deals with hand-tracking, gesture recognition, and all the movement-related logic in the project.

I feel really satisfied in doing this file because it is one of those modules that would allow us to implement lots of other features in the future, and seeing the results of my hard work compile successfully after so much setup was truly satisfying. After implementing all the configurations, making changes in the main entry point file, and completing hands.ts, things went pretty well.

Overall everything worked out well and I finally figured out the issue lol it was because I did not have these packages so thank you to Claude because it told me what to put in terminal.