hackthissite / revival

revival project

HackThisSite

The super awesome code that runs HackThisSite Dev.

Getting The Code

git clone --recursive https://github.com/HackThisSite/HackThisSite.git

Installation

See the Wiki for the up-to-date Installation Guide.

Help Us Out By Contributing

This project is still under development. Feedback and suggestions are appreciated and you are encouraged to use the Issues list on Github to provide that feedback.

Fork the repo, code, commit, push, and then submit a pull request. Simple as that.

revival's Issues

Backend: Decide on language and framework to use

We must pick a language and framework to create our backend in.

Some considerations:

• we will re-use a dump of the old database (mysql)

If we want to eventually move to serverless, I think we'd be limited to nodejs, python or go

Infrastructure: Decide on initial hosting platform

We gotta host this somewhere, it could change after the beta but preferably we can stay on the same hosting for a while.

2 contenders so far:
digitalocean
scaleway

with my current personal preference being scaleway for being able to choose the ingress controller,
and because their elastic metal servers might be usable with the kubernetes stuff!

Frontend: Decide on frontend framework

We gotta decide on what framework to look at.

Considerations:

• most content is static of which the code would be hosted in a different repo
• to save on resources, it is important everything can be pre-rendered

Some options:

• gatsby (react based)
• next.js (react based)
• nuxtJS (Vue version of next.js)
• Jekyll (Used by github, but free build times may be too long for large archives of articles or news) *
• hugo (Written in GO, allegedly fastest build times) *
• gridsome (Vue based)
• Eleventy (similar to jekyll?) *
• scully (Angular based)

(*) frameworks that only build static sites and leave you in full control, they don't add any JS to said static site themselves.

If using one of the framework agnostic builders, we will still need to pick a js framework to handle the dynamic portions.
Some options:

• React
• Vue
• Solid
• regular hand crafted javascript

Infrastructure: Decide on initial automation tooling

If we want to use infrastructure as code.. we gotta decide on the tooling for that.
I have no experience with it really, seems like terraform might be a thing?