{"id":3176,"date":"2024-10-02T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:53:27","slug":"trovedex-remade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"Trovedex remade"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago I remade my web app Trovedex<\/a> from scratch. It’s private for now, only for my own use; if you go there, it’ll ask you for a password. You’ll have to settle with this impressive screenshot:<\/p>\n

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It’s now a simple document manager. You can create documents (HTML pages) and put them in folders. That’s basically it. I wanted something like a wiki, but I wanted to use HTML instead of markdown, and I wanted to see folders and files on the side for easy navigation between pages.<\/p>\n

I created the app with the help of AI, which was a fun experience (Claude<\/a> to be exact). While AI doesn’t do all<\/em> the work for you, it definitely makes things a lot easier. For instance, I had trouble figuring out React before (a javascript library for building interfaces), so the AI was able to show me how it’s done. Adding some features was also breeze. I could tell the AI: “Let’s add the ability to delete documents.” And it would respond: “Sure, paste this code to your frontend and this code to your backend.” Done! Of course, that’s an easy feature to add. Some features caused a bit more trouble. Trovedex is using the Jodit Editor<\/a> to edit the HTML on the documents \/ pages, which Claude had some trouble with now and then, forcing me to do my own debugging.<\/p>\n

Claude also had a habit of choosing annoying tools and frameworks. It recommended I use PostgreSQL for the backend database, and Prisma to connect to it. No! I had to tell it to use MongoDB and Axios instead, which seem a lot simpler to me.<\/p>\n

Overall though, using the AI made me much more productive.<\/p>\n

There are still plenty of features I’d like to add to Trovedex eventually, including the ability to make pages or folders public. That way I can use it to replace “Hanniwiki”, which was a MediaWiki<\/a> site containing the catalog of all my music and stuff. But the software (which was more sophisticated than I really needed) went out of date, so “Hanniwiki” has been missing for a while now.<\/p>\n

I’ll probably open-source the project to GitHub at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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