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Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

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Re: Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

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Post by sdrothrock »

nolanl wrote: post #29
cdnsteve wrote: post #26

As someone who doesn't spend much time on the front end of things, this post renewed my interest. Great explanation of tech used and why. Actually using it on my Nexus 5 was unlike any site I've used before.

Author here - thanks a lot! :) I think many of the emerging performance bottlenecks in webdev are on the client rather than the server, so there's definitely a lot more research that needs to be done here. In particular, I feel like the whole "web worker" angle has been seriously overlooked, even though the tech is ~5 years old.

> In particular, I feel like the whole "web worker" angle has been seriously overlooked, even though the tech is ~5 years old.

I wonder how much of that stems from the fact that IE didn't support them until 10 and Safari til 8. I'm not sure about dates/numbers, but mobile browsers were pretty late in support too, weren't they?

Re: Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

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Post by Zarel »

I once made a Pokédex page for Pokémon Showdown, but I never really got around to promoting it:

http://pokemonshowdown.com/dex/

It's a similar idea to yours, in terms of making it modern, although I never got around to making it work offline, but it might be interesting to compare how they're similar and how they differ.

Maybe if there's interest, I should put its source up on GitHub and maybe write up some details of how I wrote it.

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Post by brazzledazzle »

cdnsteve wrote: post #26

As someone who doesn't spend much time on the front end of things, this post renewed my interest. Great explanation of tech used and why. Actually using it on my Nexus 5 was unlike any site I've used before.

Granted it's a very different beast, but this site puts the native Slack Android app to shame. Smooth like butter. I'm not bitter at all. Especially not bitter after I used the iOS Slack App. Okay, maybe a little.

Re: Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

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Post by andres »

cdnsteve wrote: post #26

As someone who doesn't spend much time on the front end of things, this post renewed my interest. Great explanation of tech used and why. Actually using it on my Nexus 5 was unlike any site I've used before.

Author of MUI here - It's awesome to see Pokedex on HN! Pokedex uses the MUI CSS framework to great effect. We put a lot of work into making the library small and light and we'd love to see more developers take it for a spin so please try it out for your next project. https://www.muicss.com

Re: Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans

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Post by NicoJuicy »

nolanl wrote: post #20
techonup wrote: post #17

There's a conspicuous lack of actual info, though. As a competitive player who's played at Worlds before, anything short of Veekun's data is going to be missing something crucial. It's a nice site and your principles are solid, but the data just has to be there.

Thanks! I'm glad there are some true Pokémaniacs out there keeping me honest. ;) In my defense, though, I put this site together in my spare time over the course of the past few weeks, and the data source I used (PokéAPI) is missing some crucial data that I still need to patch (e.g. the Gen VI species, the catch rates). But the point of the site is mostly to demonstrate what you can do with web tech, not to be the en…

Any thoughts on what you would do differently and/or what you couldn't do right now?

Eg. of techstack, syncing databases, whatever. I think this project is awesome! Learned a lot of new things :)

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