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benbaptist
Re-doing the Dashboard code
I'd love to just completely start fresh with the dashboard. It's awful. I wrote a hacky little web server, the HTML/JS/CSS3 (client-sided) part of it all sucks, it's just awful. awful awful awful awful awful awfulaful awuflawufla.
Anyways, I've thought about moving to Flask, and to that extent, Flask-SocketIO. This means it'll be an extra dependency, but it would be super worth it. It's incredibly easy to work with, lightweight, and would be able to have a nice websocket connection WITHOUT a separate port (it'll run on the actual web server port). Any ideas or thoughts on this?
I say use that dependency! LOL whatever makes the rest of it work better and is easier to use..
Flask would be good! Looks like you are using bootstrap for the front-end. Is there a particular vision you have for the dashboard? Right now it looks like a remote server management console; in that case bootstrap might still be something we could leverage for the quick and dirty cross browser and mobile support, just would need to pretty it up some.
Flak looks like good, because it's lite 'n simple. It's perfect for local-hosted webpages.
Visualizations might add some flair to the dashboard as well, personally I think a visualized metric of player statistics would have benefit. I have around 20-30 players that play at all hours and being able to have a quick dashboard view to track player frequency, logons, etc would make scheduling random events easier. I think something like d3.js would come in handy there