Unitdefs Export Continuation

[wereii]

After https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason/pull/1897 there is now a direct way to export "raw" unitdef information directly from the game.

The main enhancement that addition should offer is automated data-based unit comparisons ala https://www.beyondallreason.info/compare/armada-vs-cortex (and rest of the Units tab on the website).

There are two general issues that have to be solved to drive this home: 1) Parse & Reshape the raw json exports. These contain a lot of information that is too specific to engine. The main objective here is to extract everything that defines a unit or building - stats, weapons, abilities, ... 2) Create a way to push this data into Webflow - this is still in the information gathering phase

• Webflow is SaaS/Cloud CMS, there is also Airtable (object based storage/tables?) which can be connected to Webflow as storage but a desire was expressed to cut this (paid) middleman out.
• My current theory is that we should be able to push this data into CMS Collection but I have not confirmed how nor if it's going to be possible to have the site elements linked directly to these collections, so that a new upload of data causes a "rerender".

The current WIP code is here: https://github.com/wereii/bar-unitdefs
Right now it contains only some basic script to extract the unit-specific data.

Related & Other Information

https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/549282166543089674/1240060975751761920

Link to discord thread with discussion: https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/1240060975751761920

[wereii]

Paging in @p2004a

There wasn't time and space for me to also talk about this, but my other idea has been that the json export should also allow some integration with a discord bot for unit/buildings lookup, though for now this is a secondary thing for me.