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watterblock

This project is a web based notepad specialized for keeping score in the game of watten. It is not an online version of the game, and it has no social features. It is only intended to replace a piece of paper.

Principles

This is a hobby project, and I don't want to spend a lot of time maintaining it. Therefore, the following principles will guide its development.

  1. No feature creep: For the time beeing, this project will not grow beyond being a simple score keeping tool. Logical expansions, like synching a session between users / devices, will not be implemented, because they would be too complicated for the time I intend to spend on maintenance.
  2. Simple and stable dependencies: I have learned in past projects that fast moving environments, like many modern JS frameworks, are very tedious to keep up with. Therefore all libraries must be stable and consistent. Also, I don't want to spend much time wrangling npm. Therefore all dependencies must be vendorable as a couple of files.
  3. Baseline HTML, CSS, JS: I don't want to spend a lot of time on build tools, transpilers, and similar things. Therefore all code I write has to be in one of the three fundamental web languages. Also, I target baseline widely available, nothing else. All dev tools used have to be able to run in the browser.
  4. Extensive tests: I don't want to spend a lot of time on bug hunting, therefore everything that can be tested automatically should be.

Structure

  1. index.html is the main HTML file bootstraping everything.
  2. style.css defines how to present the notepad.
  3. models/ contains the "business logic", i.e. classes representing the current state and its behaviour at runtime.
  4. data/ contains components to store that state in persistent storage for later access.
  5. ui/ contains UI components.
  6. service-worker.js is a ServiceWorker-Script, allowing for offline usage.
  7. manifest.json makes it possible to install the notepad as an app.
  8. test.html is a unit test runner, that runs the tests in test.js. That in turn loads tests from various *.test.js files from across the project.
  9. vendored/ contains copies of external dependencies, for direct use.