I’ve been working on getting a first usable version of my new server-side sample server project (which remains unnamed as yet — let me know if you have ideas) up and running. The goals of this project are to allow MDN to host samples that require a server side component (for example, examples of how to do XMLHttpRequest or WebSockets), and to provide a place to host samples that require the ability to do things that we don’t allow in an on MDN itself. This work is going really well and I think I’ll have something to show off in the next few days.

What I did this week

• Caught up on bugmail and other messages that came in while I was out after my hospital stay.
• Played with JSMESS a bit to see extreme uses of some of our new technologies in action.
• Did some copy-editing work.
• Wrote up a document for my own reference about the manifest format and architecture for the sample server.
• Got most of the code for processing the manifests for the sample server modules and running their startup scripts written. It doesn’t quite work yet, but I’m close.
• Filed a bug about implementing a drawing tool within MDN for creating diagrams and the like in-site. Pointed to draw.io as an example of a possible way to do it. Also created a developer project page for this proposal.
• Exchanged email with Piotr about the editor revamp. It’s making good progress.

Wrap up

I’m really, really excited about the sample server work. With this up and running (hopefully soon), we’ll be able to create examples for technologies we were never able to properly demonstrate in the past. It’s been a long time coming. It’s also been a fun, fun project!

 

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