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DistroLucas.com https://distrolucas.com

PERSONAL RULES:

  • Nothing on the site should use non-personal source code
  • Optimization is the highest priority
  • Maybe? Make this be backwards-compatible (IE6)

This is my personal safe haven for re-inventing the wheel.

BUILDING THE PROJECT

  • Building the server for Ubuntu dotnet build "DistroLucasServer.NETCore.csproj" --configuration Release --runtime ubuntu.18.04-x64

TO-DO:

  • GZip support
  • Minify CSS and JS support
  • Dynamic CSS (should I just use SASS for this?)
  • Dynamic points to what I''ll be doing - future streams/whatever
  • Template system (HTML being re-used already)

DONE:

  • Paging system (index page should have everything needed to render the entire website, then later use small requests to get content)
    • The URL is changed everytime you click a page, so your history is correctly built
    • Actually using the history is not 100% (for some reason the quotes page deletes all history before it always)
  • Multi-language support through cookies
  • Paging system on the server (currently I have to create a Route for each page, even though they're all the same)
    • Routing system automatically passes parameters to the Routes functions.

LEARNED SO FAR:

  • JSON takes more space than just lines of text
  • PNGs with compression can actually be lighter than JPEGs on low color count images
  • Having all the content on the index page makes the loading of sub-pages insanely fast

EXTERNAL TOOLS ALLOWED:

  • Anything I can't possibly develop in a timely manner, so:
    • Visual Studio Code
    • NGinx for HTTPS (one day might rewrite my server to support HTTPS, but NGINX would just plainly be more secure)
    • Bit.ly (no money to buy 3-letter domain name + free data without selling my soul to Google)

TOOLS USED: