Improve Performance of Friends Graph

[jrtechs]

We want to better utilize how we are caching things on the backend for the friends of friends graph. The JSON that the GitHub API returns has a ton of URL's that are either redundant or unnecessary for this project. I also want to reduce the number of calls between the front end and the backend GitHub proxy server.

[petermorgandev]

In reworking the backend API, it should be possible to filter out any data that isn't needed before passing it on to the user.

[jrtechs]

yep, that's the plan! It should also be possible to make the cache size on the back end a lot smaller

[jrtechs]

I'm starting to work on this issue in this branch: https://github.com/jrtechs/github-graphs/tree/friends-graph-improvement

Things left to do:

• minimize JSON stored
• rewrite frontend js to use new backend route
• improve performance of pagination performance

I hope to have this done tomorrow/this weekend.

[petermorgandev]

@jrtechs You might want to use a routing system like the following. That way someone can go to https://github-graphs.com/api/jrtechs and get the JSON data for user jrtechs.

router.get("/:username", <your_function>);

[jrtechs]

@PeterMorganGH that would be ideal. We can make our own restful API of sorts.