[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates
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Show HN: I built a site to share code boilerplates
While looking for some code boilerplates i realised there isn't
really an easy / efficient place to browse. Boilermate.site was
made for the community to share them and give a vote!
Author : sansjack
Score : 60 points
Date : 2024-05-03 07:16 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (boilermate.site)
(TXT) w3m dump (boilermate.site)
| sansjack wrote:
| Hey Im Jack! Im the creator of boilermate.site I just wanted to
| add some context to the creation of this app! I have always loved
| the use of boilerplates when it comes to programming, it saves
| all that headache of the setup and gets you right into action,
| but there wasn't really a nice place to find boilerplates that
| are cool and trending! boilermate.site was created with Sveltekit
| and mongoDB using mongoose. This was the first time using
| mongoose and i wasn't too keen on it. I wrote all of the auth and
| logic myself for this and i will be honest the code is bloody
| awful.. as i really underestimated the amount of work needed to
| get this up... (guest authentication...). I think i will stick to
| using lucia-auth and postgres... Any questions or something which
| is god awful let me know! Thanks, Jack Sansom
| codencoffee wrote:
| love the idea. reminds me of gitignore.io. Two remarks. I'd
| choose a different emoji for downvotes and second, how do I add
| a logo when entering a new tag/tech?
| sansjack wrote:
| hey thanks for the feedback, currently you cant its just if
| its in the dev icon list im checking! But you can add a
| custom tag by just typing it!
| karmakaze wrote:
| Nice site. I think this will come in handy. Here's some notes.
| - title length limit seems too short - 5 tags seems too
| limiting--when looking for a specific combination of tags
| better to list everything - clicking on a tag takes you
| directly to the link unexpectedly (even if it's the only one)
| - being able to search for multiple (AND) tags is the killer
| feature
| brianjking wrote:
| Seeing SSL errors trying to load the site.
| sansjack wrote:
| yeah im not sure what vercel is doing. Try this url
| https://boilermate.vercel.app ?
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| I believe the visual noise can be reduced a bit. Here are a few
| personal ideas;
|
| - Replace the loud icons with just an UP/DOWN arrow for voting.
|
| - Pill Labels/Tags can have a subdued contrast -- "24 minutes
| ago", "GitHub", etc. They can be just hyperlinks.
|
| - Instead bring out the contrast in the taglines. I want to read
| that along with the title.
|
| - The logos of various technology might be enough without their
| titles, such as "Python", "NextJs".
|
| - Please make me scroll the page and not a frame inside a page.
| sansjack wrote:
| thanks for the feedback, i'm trying to better my frontend skill
| so i really appreciate this!
| eddd-ddde wrote:
| I'm curious what's the argument for the last point.
|
| I also tend to make apps that have nested containers scroll
| with the content. Anything wrong with it in particular?
| super256 wrote:
| The scroll is not properly restored between browser
| navigations.
| doix wrote:
| It wastes vertical space, most people have horizontal
| monitors. On mobile devices it takes up a lot of the screen
| despite them being vertical.
|
| It sometimes breaks thing like "space" to scroll, depends
| where focus ends up.
| eddd-ddde wrote:
| I use it mostly for web interactive apps, I guess mobile is
| not really my use case then.
|
| I'll be more attentive to space scroll tho.
|
| Thanks for the comment.
| skeeter2020 wrote:
| it's a major accessibility hinderance as well
| p2hari wrote:
| boilermate site stack itself is not right. It says gitlab, but
| links to GitHub and there is nothing there except a readme.
| sansjack wrote:
| ah yeah sorry i haven't actually posted it publicly yet!
| dommer wrote:
| I see people have already worked out the rude word stacks.
| pixelpoet wrote:
| I hope your webserver has several terabytes free for when someone
| submits a Vulkan example.
| KomoD wrote:
| You don't upload the source to their site, you just link it
| bearjaws wrote:
| Am I misunderstanding? I cannot find a link to an actual repo,
| the #1 top sample just goes to Sveltekit?
|
| I guess if your boilerplate is just building everything
| yourself... It shows postgres + supabase for it and those are all
| things you would have to manually bolt on to Sveltekit.
| codingdave wrote:
| This may be intended to list boilerplates, but without any
| content filtering or moderation, it is only a matter of time to
| just be an open list of spam links. Or, it would be if any of the
| links worked.
|
| Even if you did resolve the spam problem, allowing anonymous
| up/down voting is just going to make the "top" boilerplates be
| about who can click the most, not about quality or fitting
| different criteria to different use cases.
|
| This is the start of an idea, to be sure... I just don't think it
| is ready yet.
| pc86 wrote:
| I was excited for what I thought this was but half of these seems
| to be just stacks. "Use SvelteKit and Supabase" is not a
| boilerplate and just linking to Svelte doesn't actually provide
| any useful information. One just links to the Bun runtime.
|
| It's a good idea and it has promise but need to have a high bar
| for submissions in order to actually be useful.
| Jackson_Fleck wrote:
| There's ship fast and MVP, and then there's putting a website out
| that doesn't really achieve what users expect. I'm not sure what
| to do here and it feels v indie-hacky
| wsintra2022 wrote:
| You might want to put the brakes on. I just visited the site and
| saw some very offensive content.
| logrot wrote:
| Is C code now classed as offensive?
| threecheese wrote:
| Classless
| threecheese wrote:
| The B.O.O.B.S stack was my fave. The Author links to a Twitter
| thot and the GitHub links to the Bun (javascript) repo! Clever.
| Yes, I am 12 - have been for thirty years.
| aio2 wrote:
| Was going by new and found the n-word stack...
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