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:

• Visual Studio Code
• HTTPS by Certbot
• Reverse Proxy/HTTPS handling by NGinx
• Dynamic JS by NucleusJS: https://github.com/lucasassislar/nucleusjs
• Server by NucleusDotNet: https://github.com/lucasassislar/nucleusdotnet
  • Initial HTTP server code by David Jeske
  • Additional attributes for Route Management and listing more akin to ASP.NET/Express
  • No caching for pages currently
  • .NET Core 3 on Ubuntu 18