playground.shiny.space/README.md

Web Development Playground

This project has two main goals:

1. Learn web development basics - Practice HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript with a simple backend that has low dependencies and is easy to run
2. Build minimal examples - Create the basic features needed for a hobby browser game project

Architecture

This repository contains the HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend and Go backend code. The full setup relies on external components not included in this repo:

• Caddy webserver - Serves the HTML/CSS/JS files directly and handles authentication
• Authelia - Provides user authentication and session management
• Reverse proxy - API requests are forwarded from Caddy to the running Go executable

Learning Focus

This is a learning project that prioritizes readability and simplicity over "best practices" or complex patterns. No massive dependencies or frameworks will be introduced - keeping everything straightforward and easy to understand.

The project includes cheat sheets explaining common patterns used:

• Go patterns commonly found in this codebase (for those less familiar with Go)
• JavaScript patterns may be added if needed