MixCat is a discord bot framework conceptualized by Proladon. It combines the basics of a discord.js bot with elements from the frontend ecosystem, such as Vite (frontend bundling tool), Vue (frontend framework), and Pinia (frontend global state management library).
As a frontend engineer, my familiarity revolves around the Vue/Vite technical ecosystem on a daily basis. I particularly appreciate Vue's reactive design, Vite's simplicity and speed, and the extensive community and ecosystem.
While developing with Vue, I always use path aliases to make the code cleaner and more readable. So when I was developing with discord.js, I wanted to use path aliases to achieve the same. However, when using TypeScript, I often encountered path alias resolution errors during compilation. I spent a lot of time configuring it, but I always felt it was imperfect and troublesome.
That's when I thought, if I use Vite as the bundling tool, just like when developing with Vue, configuring path aliases would be a breeze. At the same time, I could bring in Vue and utilize its reactive features like watch, computed, ref, reactive... and more, and combine them with Vue's global state management tool, Pinia, to implement more functionalities!
Finally, I found vite-node !! Based on Vite's node runtime environment, and after experimentation, it turned out to be feasible! Thus, MixCat was born!
If you want to delve deeper into how MixCat operates, you can watch Proladon's tutorial videos.
