The 2020 Next.js rewrite, now being merged into impress!
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Hmm, I see, Vercel chews on Cache-Control headers a bit more than I'm used to, so anything marked `scope: PRIVATE` would not be cached at all. But on a more standard server, this was coming out as privately cacheable, but for an actual amount of time (1 hour in the homepage case), because of the `maxAge` on other fields. That meant the device browser cache would hold onto the result, and not always reflect Own/Want changes upon page reload. In this change, we set `maxAge: 0`, because we want this field to be very responsive. I also left `scope: PRIVATE`, even though I think it doesn't really matter if we're saying the field isn't cacheable anyway, because I want to set the precendent that `currentUser` fields need it, to avoid a potential gotcha if someone creates a cacheable `currentUser` field in the future. (That's important to be careful with though, because is it even okay for logouts to not clear it? TODO: Can we clear the private HTTP cache somehow? I guess we would need to include the current user ID in the URL?) |
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Dress to Impress 2020
This is a rewrite of the Neopets customization app, Dress to Impress!
It's a React app, built with create-react-app, running on Vercel, JAMstack-style.
The motivating goals of the rewrite are:
- Mobile friendly, to match Neopets's move to mobile.
- Simple modern tech, to be more maintainable over time and decrease hosting costs.
If you want to contribute, please reach out to Matchu! This repository is almost shareable, but the main limitation is that we currently run even our development server against the production database, and those credentials are private. But we can change that if there's interest!
Architecture sketch
First, there's the core app, in this repository.
- React app: Runs on Vercel's CDN. Code in
src/app. - API functions: Run on Vercel's Serverless Functions. Code in
apiandsrc/server.
Then, there's our various data storage components.
- MySQL database: Runs on our Linode VPS, colocated with the old app.
- Amazon S3: Stores PNGs of pet/item appearance layers, converted from the Neopets SWFs. (Once Neopets releases HTML5-compatible assets for all their items, we can hopefully remove this!)
Finally, there's our third-party integrations.
- Auth0: For authentication. Data imported from our old OpenNeo ID auth database.
- Honeycomb: For observability & performance insights on the backend.
- Discord: For logging Support users' actions to a private Discord server.
- Neopets: We load pet data from them! And plenty of assets!
Notable old components not currently included in Impress 2020:
- Elasticsearch: Used for lightning-fast item search queries. So far, we're finding the MySQL queries to be fast enough in practice. Might consider using some kind of fulltext query engine if that doesn't scale with more users!
- Resque: Used to schedule background tasks for modeling and outfit thumbnails.
- Outfit thumbnail generation: Used for outfit thumbnails in the app. I'm wondering if there's a way to get away with not doing this, like just rendering the layers... but I suppose if we want a good social share experience, then we'll probably want this. Maybe we can generate them on the fly as API requests, instead of adding a data storage component?
- Memcache: Used to cache common HTML and JSON snippets. Not yet needing anything similar in Impress 2020!
- The entire old Rails app! No references to it in here, aside from some temporary URL links to features that aren't implemented here yet.