joliss
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5 years ago You might be able to do this without a server.
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You can allow people to share models by serializing the state into the URL. So every time the user makes any change in the UI, you update the URL, like this:
window.location.hash = encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(state))resulting in a URL like
https://homotopy.io/#{cell1:"...",cell2:"...",...}. That way, the current model is always sharable by copy-pasting the URL.Google Maps does the same thing if you want to see it in action.
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Saving models can be done locally using the browser's local storage. (You might want to use a library like store.js.)
Of course, saving to local storage doesn't help if the user switches computers. But perhaps that's an acceptable limitation.
If you manage to do everything in the client, you don't just avoid having to write all the server code, but it also means that you don't need to maintain a server indefinitely. Just find a place to serve static files from (GitHub Pages will do fine) and point your domain at it. We've been using this strategy for solitr.com, and it's been saving us so much headache!
wetneb
jamievicary
NickHu
We need a simple server (I presume node/express), supporting the following basic features:
This is already implemented for the old system at http://globular.science. That uses a filesystem database, with a simple structure that I would like to replicate. However, I suggest we re-write from scratch.