Potentially reuse code from ningen + arikawa

[diamondburned]

Firstly, it's great that someone is rewriting 6cord into something better and more maintainable! A lot of people have asked me to continue maintaining 6cord, but its codebase was written when I did not know any better, so maintaining it is near impossible. I'm glad that someone finally did the hard work for everyone else.

During that time, I have made various other Discord clients along the way, and have put most of that work into one unified library for making clients, ningen.

ningen provides:

• helper functions that are useful for making clients, such as
  • functions to determine if a message mentions the user and should trigger a notification, or
  • abstractions around muted and read statuses of channels and guilds.
• various state abstractions, such as
  • EmojiState, which lets the user query emojis that they can use (with Nitro support),
  • MemberState, which abstracts Gateway events and commands for searching and receiving member data, and
  • RelationshipState, which queries whether a user is blocked or is a friend, etc.
• an almost complete Discord Markdown parser (discordmd) that uses goldmark to properly tokenize and parse messages.

Immediately, these features will benefit implementing issues #129 and #167, as well as potentially reducing some existing code in the program.

v3 of the library uses arikawa/v3.

As a side note, code from gtkcord4 may be of use. It also uses ningen to do some of its work.

I hope you'll find this library useful in implementing more features for this application.

[ghost]

Hello there, ningen looks awesome! Can you list some examples that use the discordmd package in the README.md file.

[diamondburned]

Can you list some examples that use the discordmd package in the README.md file.

I can, but that's probably not a very high priority of mine right now. I'll just put some resources right here in the meantime:

• https://github.com/diamondburned/ningen/blob/v3/discordmd/renderer.go for an example basic renderer
• https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4/blob/main/internal/gtkcord/message/content.go#L255-L262 for an example Parse usage
  • https://github.com/diamondburned/chatkit/blob/main/md/mdrender/mdrender.go#L119 is the Markdown-to-GTK renderer
  • https://github.com/diamondburned/gtkcord4/blob/main/internal/gtkcord/message/content.go#L332-L336 plugs in additional Discord-specific renderers (because chatkit is not Discord-specific)

This uses goldmark, so most of goldmark's examples somewhat apply. Beware that goldmark's parsing and rendering is heavily HTML-specific, as it assumes a lot of the parsing/rendering quirks are handled by the browser.