Categories, Theme Control, CSS Bugfixes, Cache Gap Fix

[piemadd]

This update has added a few features, and fixed quite a few bugs:

1. Categories: Hidden behind ?beta=1, categories, each post is categorized under a, well, category. If no category is assigned, it is automatically under 'other'. If product, infra, or projects is a tag, and eng is not a tag, the eng tag is automatically applied.

2. Theme Control: The user's preferred theme is automatically applied, but a button in the bottom left lets them change this. Also behind beta wall

3. CSS Bug Fixes: Small fixes like making the arrow go left instead of the text go right when hovering over back to blog. Not behind beta tag.

4. Cache Gap Fix: If the blog is hit before the initial load of posts is finished, the returned page would be blank. To fix this, the server doesn't start until this is complete. This makes sure the experience for users isn't ruined unintentionally.

[ykdojo]

Looks good! I don't think I'll be able to look at the code, so if you want someone to review it, you should ask @Zwork101

[replbot]

This PR is getting big. To make it easier for others to review you might want to breaking it up into smaller changes.

[replbot]

unbooping: approved

[piemadd]

Yeah lmao, it's for the replit debugger, doesn't do anything, and iirc its only used on a single markdown file??

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 19:59 Mason Clayton @.***> wrote:

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In .breakpoints https://github.com/replit/blog/pull/6#discussion_r715249542:

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ {

can we just delete this file lmao

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[masad-frost]

Will take a look this weekend if I get a chance. Or Monday

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[piemadd]

@masad-frost bro

[piemadd]

Cool. One thing to note is that I originally had it handled by the server, but more than 10-20 people clicking about absolutely spammed the blog and it also took some time to resolve. Merging.