Learnt something valuable ✨

Okay now the puzzle buttons have dynamic ui. The puzzle button will have ui according to the puzzle level. I was confused on how to achieive because there were three condition instead of two. If there were only two coniditions then it would have be easy as I would have simply used ternary operator. I couldn’t use if condition inside jsx. After some time I figured that if could call a function and use if conditions inside the function and return the className. Also now the puzzle level is stored and fetched from the backend.

After doing that a toast error popped up as you can see below. I didn’t know why this was showing up when the page is first loaded up but instead of fixing that I first moved on to make the start puzzle button work. I think my main problem is I get distracted easily. To make the start puzzles button work firstly I created puzzle context file . I was deciding to make the chesboard context the puzzlecontext as all the data needed for puzzles page was there but I think it’s better to seperate those things. So, I placed the puzzle context higher than chessboard context with that thought process. If the puzzle hasn’t started the fen value is set to default starting position. Then I again got distracted and thought why isn’t the vision context also above the chessboard context. So, I moved the vision context and the coordinates broke. The reason was color state so then I created different color states for vision and puzzle context. While writing this I don’t actually know what I’m really doing. I do one thing and jump onto another making writing the devlog very hard. I think I can do better… 🙁

After learning the lesson, doing thing one at a time. I only focused on making the start button work. So I moved some values inside puzzles context for this to work and everything broke. But, I wasn’t feeling overwhelmed as my focus on only one thing. Slowly but surely I fixed the pieces moving, capturing and the first opponent move. I think my main issue is dealing with useState hook updating in batches. Ig I will just get better with time. Still the backgroundColor animation is broken which I need to fix.

Also while doing this I found out why the toast error was occurring. Silly me didn’t add method post to update the puzzle level. Now after the puzzle finishes the puzzle levels value updates and the updated value persists.

I should definitely do things one at a time. Getting distracted and doing multiple things will just make me feeling overwhelmed and will make it harder for me to devlog as well.