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"I'm doing it only for fun and to learn new things." Vs "I don't want to spend whole summer learning javascript and responsive design, because it would feel more like a chore to me" Huh?
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Well, I'm looking to build a modern and robust opensource anonymous imageboard software (most people here probably know about 4chan), as all the existing usable alternatives are written in PHP and the code is 10 years old and barely maintained. Yes, maybe I will try to do the front end by myself and also provide rest api on the side, if anyone was interested.
One bit of advice, don't go for React/Angular/front-end unless you actually need to or you actually want to. Whatever web framework you're using (probably some variation of Spring if you're using Java) should have built in templating which should be more than sufficient to build an MVP/Proof of concept imageboard. I doubt 4chan is running any kind of SPA either. Then if your project is successful or you want to stick…
Created a fb group for this scenario: https://www.facebook.com/groups/665825200225224/
Basic design goals:
less is more, holy war elimination, strong/strict references, no syntax overloading, blocks by reference, single paradigm, sub-types by assignment/extension instead of by generics, lexical scope instead of classes/inheritance
It would be very nice to have a platform where people can propose/ask for FLOSS projects and subscribe to them as potential contributor / tester / user. It could allow searching by keyword/tag/topic and voting.
"I'm doing it only for fun and to learn new things." Vs "I don't want to spend whole summer learning javascript and responsive design, because it would feel more like a chore to me" Huh?
I was going to raise this point. Is it about building a webpage or about what the webpage will do? If OP doesn't want to learn how to make a webpage, perhaps OP shouldn't make a webpage.
A forward thinking individual and upper management material for sure!
Because the limitation of the "just do it yourself on your own" approach is that when looking for specific solutions I often stubble on a dozen of half-backed, dubiously maintained, side projects. And I can't keep from wondering what great things theses solos developers could have done had they worked together form the start.
Also a good example come to my mind, you might want to ask OpenStreetMap.org developers how did they gather and start what is a "recent" and huge FOSS success story with a large community behind it.
"I'm doing it only for fun and to learn new things." Vs "I don't want to spend whole summer learning javascript and responsive design, because it would feel more like a chore to me" Huh?
This might not be the answer you're looking for, but if you don't already have someone in mind, then you should probably build you side project on your own. Also, basic html and css is all it takes to build a webpage. (Well, technically you don't even need the CSS...) JavaScript is definately not required. Responsive CSS is a bit nicer to have to make the website mobile-friendly, but this is all you really need: * {m…
Thats a genius idea for making sure none of the elements goes our of viewport width. I always had this issue that a div has standard border padding, and width:100% pushes its right to out of viewport. Can't wait to try this. Just few genuine questions, as I am learning, specifically in making static fixed header bars for few of my fun projects. Does the meta tag in ur comment needs closure(>), or is it something I mi…
You likely want `box-sizing: border-box`: https://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/