Friday, September 11, 2020

Ready to start building a better OSGL website

For the open source games list (OSGL) that I maintain, I'm finally ready to build a more comprehensive website programmatically. So far, it's a single page with a JavaScript data table showing >1000 rows. That was not a good presentation.

I now want pages for every game, every original inspiration and every developer as well as statistics pages and category pages, each with smaller JavaScript data tables and links between them.

The source of the data are the Markdown files in the OSGL as well as the reading and synchronization scripts in Python using a parser for the Markdown files.

Now I will write templates (using Jinja2) to export the data to HTML and use a clean CSS framework and data tables. It will probably still be hosted on GitHub, unless I find a better place.

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