this is a work in progress!

• Scoutradioz Tech Tour - a dive through all the technologies used in the Scoutradioz platform

Runs Javascript outside of a web browser

• https://nodejs.org/en (product page)
• https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_intro.asp (W3Schools info/tutorial/etc.)
• Node.js Crash Course (2024 Revamp) (YouTube)

Lets a Node app receive web requests and return web pages

• https://expressjs.com/ (product page)
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/express-js/ (tutorial)
• Learn Express JS In 35 Minutes (YouTube)

Persistent data storage; NoSQL / JSON storage

• https://www.mongodb.com/resources/languages/mongodb-with-nodejs (product page)
• https://www.w3schools.com/nodejs/nodejs_mongodb.asp (W3Schools info/tutorial/etc.)

Making pages look sharp

• https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Overview.en.html (standards page)
• https://www.w3schools.com/css/ (W3Schools tutorial/etc.)
• https://csszengarden.com/ (examples of what CSS can do)

MIME goodness

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/jimp NPM page
• https://blog.logrocket.com/image-processing-with-node-and-jimp/ overview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrI_9V07fY random YouTube

Creating a PWA (Progressive Web App), i.e. a web app which can be used offline

• https://svelte.dev/ product site
• https://learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/welcome-to-svelte interactive tutorial
• https://kit.svelte.dev/ add routing to basic Svelte
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/ni9g5d/svelte_vs_sveltekit/ decent explainer for svelte vs sveltekit

Wrapper for index.db in browsers

• https://dexie.org/ product site
• https://dexie.org/docs/Tutorial/ tutorial

CSS framework

• https://tailwindcss.com/ product site
• https://tsh.io/blog/tailwind-css-tutorial/ tutorial

• Architecture - DB, multiple “services” running, tiers of app
• Data structures - important tables
• User accounts / authentication - why security, how security
• Views - turning data into web pages, Pug
• Routes - handling web requests, pulling together data, sending to views
• Error handling and alerts - graceful and informative
• Internationalization (i18n) - showing other languages
• REST API calls - getting data from other sources, like The Blue Alliance

• Lambda
• API gateway
• S3
• MongoDB Atlas
• Cloudwatch

• Source control - git, Github
• Legal aspects of OSS - licensing, trademarks™, patents