PDHREC: Pauper Commander Card Recommendations

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What is Pauper Commander?

Pauper Commander / Pauper Dragon Highlander is a Magic the Gathering format that is a cross between Pauper and EDH (commander).

Check out the rules at the PDH Homebase.

What does this website do?

PDHREC is based on the website EDHREC, a website that recommends cards for use in commander decks.

After collecting deck information from thousands of decks, users can see what the best cards are for any particular deck, or for a particular color.

Building the PDHREC-dev environment:

1. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/origamiimaster/pdhrec.git.
2. Get a connection string for the MongoDB instance you want to use. A straightforward method is to create an account with MongoDB Atlas, the free tier will be plenty for running PDHREC. Create a file in the pdhrec folder called server-token.json and fill it with {"connection": "YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE"}
3. Install eleventy, a static site generator. The build script uses a global install, so run npm install -g @11ty/eleventy after making sure you have NodeJS.
4. Run the generate_frontend_doc.py first. It will take some time as it gathers all of the data from the different sources, and saves it into the database for the first time.
5. Navigate into the frontend folder, and run the shell script ./build.sh. On windows, you can empty the build folder and then run eleventy --formats=html,css,js,liquid,md --output=build.
6. Host the static site with your favorite hosting services, for development the simple python3 -m http.server --directory build works great.
7. Open a web browser and navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000.