[MEGATHREAD] GlitchyPastePen - Create simple front-end projects using an online code editor with instant hosting

khalby786 · June 3, 2020, 3:57pm

THIS PROJECT DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE.

GlitchyPastePen BETA

Create simple front-end projects (mainly with HTML, CSS and JS) using an online code editor with instant hosting, much like CodePen.

GlitchyPastePen has an online code IDE, which allows you to create a simple static site and host them immediately.

GlitchyPastePen: https://glitchypastepen.glitch.me/
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/GlitchyPastePen/GlitchyPastePen
Discord Server Invite: Discord
Status: https://glitchypastepen.statuspage.io
Forum: https://glitchypastepen.flarum.cloud

Features

Collaborate live with friends and other users (temporarily disabled)
Powerful code editor with Ace.js
Choose your own preferences such as text wrapping, theme, font-size, etc, for the editor.
Intellisense powered by Ace.js
Beautify your code to make it look better.
Instant hosting for projects

Contributing

Fork the repository!
Clone your fork: git clone https://github.com/your-username/GlitchyPastePen.git
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request!

Uses

HTML
CSS
JS
Node.js (Express)
EJS
TogetherJS for streaming with friends (Mozilla labs) (CURRENTLY DISABLED)

Remixing

Remix this project or clone this repo.

git clone https://github.com/khalby786/glitchypastepen.git
cd glitchypastepen

In the .env file, create a variable named SECRET and give it some value (meant for your session password).
This project uses the GitHub oAuth, so you need to create a new Github oAuth app in your GitHub Account, so first go to http://github.com.
Click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select ‘Settings’ from the drop-down menu.

Scroll all the way down and choose “Developer Settings” from the left menu.

Choose oAuth Apps.

Click on “New oAuth App”

Fill in all the details according to your wish, but make sure to set callback as https://PROJECTNAME.glitch.me/login/github/callback.

npm start

Collaborators

Contributors

Status page at https://glitchypastepen.statuspage.io.

RiversideRocks · June 3, 2020, 4:02pm

Really cool software! I have messed around with this and it is awesome!

idodev · June 3, 2020, 4:05pm

ya i like it to?
is this open source on glitch

ihack2712 · June 3, 2020, 4:21pm

DO NOT USE YOUR EVERYDAY PASSWORD ON THIS SITE! This site does not hash your password or use any sort of encryption at all!

github.com

khalby786/GlitchyPastePen/blob/master/server.js#L89


});

app.get("/login", (request, response) => {
  response.sendFile(__dirname + "/views/login.html");
});

app.get("/signup", async (request, response) => {
  response.sendFile(__dirname + "/views/signup.html");
});

app.post("/signup", async (request, response) => {
  var authdata;
  global.email = request.body.email;
  var username = request.body.username;
  var password = request.body.password;
  if (username && password && global.email) {
    let hasuser = await user.has(username);
    if (!hasuser) {
      let userinfo = { password: password, email: global.email };
      let newuser = await user.set(username, userinfo);
      authdata = { redirect: "/", detail: "newuser" };

khalby786 · June 3, 2020, 4:21pm

Credit to @random for making Ace.js work, because it wasn’t working initially.

khalby786 · June 3, 2020, 4:21pm

Yeah, I don’t. Good call, I should have said this earlier.

ihack2712 · June 3, 2020, 4:22pm

I’ll be willing to add proper hashing and authentication if you’d like.

khalby786 · June 3, 2020, 4:23pm

Thank you so much @ihack2712, see https://github.com/khalby786/GlitchyPastePen#contributing.

khalby786 · June 3, 2020, 4:28pm

Glitch project at https://glitch.com/edit/#!/glitchypastepen

javaarchive · June 3, 2020, 9:34pm

Pull request made, oh forgot to say but I added I slightly modified the big text of the homepage.

EddiesTech · June 3, 2020, 10:44pm

Can they not just use the bcrypt library. I have got that working before. They could also set up passport.js

Anish · June 4, 2020, 1:10am

Simple fix, that when not implemented is a major security problem.

Also implementing that know will lock users out of there old accounts so the system needs to encrypt all old passwords as a one time thing.

AlphaDelta0mega · June 4, 2020, 2:39am

Do you know any good tutorials for username/password logins that do not require 3rd party apps? I want to implement some for my site

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 2:53am

Hey @Anish @EddiesTech @ihack2712,

I’ll be rolling out a security update today making sure no more security vulnerabilities remain. Also thanks to @wh0 for pointing out another problem in the DMs. All passwords will be encrypted and we’ll have random words for project names.

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 3:03am

Here’s a secret (not so secret) tip: in the editor, press Ctrl + , and you’ll see a settings pane which allows you to set preferences for the editor.

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 3:04am

@javaarchive your pull request looks good although I’ve a few things in the code to tidy up before merging the request.

javaarchive · June 4, 2020, 3:08am

Yes I normally ruin good-looking code when I remix/fork things. Example: Jenn’s wonderful 8 bit pixel art code

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 6:52am

UPDATE!

Merged @javaarchive’s pull request
Password encryption (thanks to @javaarchive)
Random words as project names (also thanks to @javaarchive

Since passwords created before this update are not encrypted, login might fail. So, if you want, you can request to have your account deleted and you make a new one. When you make a new account, make sure to use the same username so that you get back your projects.

ihack2712 · June 4, 2020, 10:17am

Don’t encrypt passwords…

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 10:21am

Passwords look like this now:

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 10:23am

I got the term wrong, it wasn’t password encryption, what I did was password hashing. That’s what the bcrypt library does.

EddiesTech · June 4, 2020, 10:28am

What you did was password hashing and salting. They are all different - bcrypt using hashing and salting which is the best method.

EddiesTech · June 4, 2020, 10:29am

Best video explanation. I watched that and it’s great!

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 10:56am

@ihack2712 @EddiesTech @Anish @javaarchive @idodev @RiversideRocks @random and everyone else who has created an account on GPP (sorry for the mass mentioning) I’ve deleted all user accounts and projects as a safety measure, as a result of the implementation of the hashing and salting password protection. Kindly excuse me for the inconvenience.

idodev · June 4, 2020, 11:09am

Is it protected by license or can I remix it on GitHub

ihack2712 · June 4, 2020, 11:10am

It’s licensed under MIT, which is not a strict license at all.

idodev · June 4, 2020, 11:33am

when i copy the git url and import as a project in glitch then try to vist the site it just shows errors
@khalby786

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 11:35am

What are the errors?

idodev · June 4, 2020, 11:41am

@khalby786 the glitch link doesnt work

idodev · June 4, 2020, 11:45am

@khalby786 the errors are:
Error: secret option required for sessions
at session (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/express-session/1.17.1/node_modules/express-session/index.js:200:12)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/express/4.17.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
at trim_prefix (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/express/4.17.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)
at /rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/express/4.17.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
at Function.process_params (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/express/4.17.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
at next (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/express/4.17.1/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
at SendStream.error (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/serve-static/1.14.1/node_modules/serve-static/index.js:121:7)
at SendStream.emit (events.js:196:13)
at SendStream.error (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/send/0.17.1/node_modules/send/index.js:270:17)
at SendStream.onStatError (/rbd/pnpm-volume/5934a41f-ada9-4390-af69-85f10bd25889/node_modules/.registry.npmjs.org/send/0.17.1/node_modules/send/index.js:421:12)

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:05pm

May I know which Glitch link you are talking about?

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:05pm

Sessions need a secret, which is stored in the .env.

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:27pm

this one: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/glitchypastepen

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:27pm

but what do I do with it

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:30pm

@idodev, can you try again now?

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:30pm

Looks awesome!

It’s not mobile friendly
I think it would look better with a menu instead of buttons

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:31pm

When I remix it and open it up it still shows the errors

@khalby786

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:31pm

Yes, it is not mobile-friendly yet.
I think the current look of buttons instead of menu is suitable for the editor right now.

RiversideRocks · June 4, 2020, 12:31pm

One request I have is to just add a raw paste tool (I tried php and the <? of php made nothing show up).

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:32pm

I don’t understand

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:32pm

How was your logo made? It really looks pixely and suits “Glitchy”

RiversideRocks · June 4, 2020, 12:33pm

I mean just an option to paste raw text, like pastebin.

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:33pm

I must thank @jenn for making make8bitart because it was made using make8bitart

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:34pm

Oh I see. Does anything in the settings pane help?

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:34pm

Oh ok. Looks cool though!

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:34pm

@khalby786 when I remixed it it still shows errors

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:35pm

Yes, read the code and look for .env values used in the code. Then, replace them with the suitable values.

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:35pm

I wish the Kidz editor looked as good as GlitchyPastePen. How was the login database made?

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:35pm

I think it was made with mongo DB

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:36pm

SQLite database powered by Endb (product of @chroventer).

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:36pm

Cool! What great UI!

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:36pm

Thanks for the feedback!

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:37pm

but what do I replace the env’s with???

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:37pm

The name of the .env variable should be helpful…

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:38pm

you mean secret?? what does secret mean like what am I supposed to put there

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:39pm

Hang on…let me see what all env values I’m using

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:39pm

I only see one .env value

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:40pm

Yes, and that is the session secret. Replace with something like a password for your session.

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:40pm

so It can be anything??

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:40pm

In your case, yes.

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:40pm

Ok I did it but what I even the pointt for it

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:41pm

What do you mean???

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:41pm

why does there have to be a session secret

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:42pm

Where in the Github do I see the index?

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:43pm

@khalby786 how do I connect it to my DB

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:44pm

The session secret is a key used for signing and/or encrypting cookies set by the application to maintain session state. In practice, this is often what prevents users from pretending to be someone they’re not – ensuring that random person on the internet cannot access your application as an administrator.

This answer is from Google, because I didn’t know how to describe it.

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:44pm

What do I put in .env?

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:45pm

anything @anon69241012 did you not read the posts?

EddiesTech · June 4, 2020, 12:45pm

views/login.html

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:45pm

Silly me. Remembered just after

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:46pm

Sorry for the incorrect file naming, a mixup happed and finally the homepage became login.html.

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:46pm

Can I use some code in Kidz? We need a new login form… and maybe a small tweak to our editor…

EddiesTech · June 4, 2020, 12:47pm

I heard that it’s on mit license so yes

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:47pm

as long as you show the license

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:48pm

It’s licensed under the MIT license and code reproduced from GPP should be in accordance with the license. Please read LICENSE.md before using GPP’s code in Kidz.

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:48pm

@khalby786 how do I connect my own DB to it

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 12:48pm

OK. I will give credit and squeeze both together

idodev · June 4, 2020, 12:49pm

not just credit you have to show the license that @khalby786 put into glitchypastepen into your site

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:50pm

Somewhere at the top, there’s a statement defining two databases (I think the variable names are project and user). I’ve defined an SQLite database using Endb in those two statements. Those two statements create a SQLite database, refer to https://endb.js.org for using other types of databases such as MongoDB.

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 12:51pm

Yes, the MIT license requires you to do that.

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 1:16pm

I will. Thanks so much. I will also get a new homepage redesign.

random · June 4, 2020, 1:17pm

Hello, just a note that collaberative editing is a beta feature and is being replaced where possible

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 1:19pm

OK. Thanks. I remixed it - kidzeditor2.glitch.me but how do I connect it to my database?

RiversideRocks · June 4, 2020, 1:20pm

I would recommend that you do a bit of research into databases. It will likely be very helpful for future development @thebigc.

random · June 4, 2020, 1:25pm

Yeah, good idea

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 1:26pm

I never used databases before… I never needed them…

idodev · June 4, 2020, 1:26pm

well then start learning

khalby786 · June 4, 2020, 1:27pm

Use a database adapter to initiate databases quickly. I would recommend Endb.

random · June 4, 2020, 1:27pm

If you want security an easy to use UI, try MongoDB atlas- its free for 512mb

RiversideRocks · June 4, 2020, 1:27pm

SQLite and MySQL are fine databases.

anon69241012 · June 4, 2020, 1:27pm

I will think about it

idodev · June 4, 2020, 1:28pm

I think mongoDB is nice

random · June 4, 2020, 1:28pm

And @anon69241012 , ALWAYS put your db details in.env

RiversideRocks · June 4, 2020, 1:29pm

You don’t want that to get stolen… same with API keys.

random · June 4, 2020, 1:30pm

Does anyone know any good collaberative editing packages?

EddiesTech · June 4, 2020, 1:59pm

MongoDB is much better for people who have never used databases before. I started with MySQL/mysqli on PHP and then tried MongoDB on Javascript with Mongoose and it is much easier than doing all those silly queries and things. Totally recommend

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 3:45pm

I’ve now made GitHub oAuth as the primary login method to prevent account abuse and spam, as well as some UI fixes, especially for the editor, including a new status bar at the bottom. As a result of this, the login form no longer exists (no need for it, because we have GitHub login) and those who remix this app again will have to create an oAuth Application in their GitHub account and paste the client ID and client secret in the env. I’ll be updating the README soon for better remix instructions.

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 5:41pm

How the editor now looks:

Press Ctrl + , and you can customize the editor according to your needs.

And @RiversideRocks, there’s syntax highlighting for almost any language, including C++ and C:

ihack2712 · June 6, 2020, 5:43pm

This is starting to look like something!! I’d still advise against that huge header, you should look into getting it to a sidebar! Good work @khalby786

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 5:43pm

Next up, WebSockets for auto-save instead of clicking a “Save” button.

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 5:43pm

Now, that’s an improvement! Yes, the header is also on my list, because I’m trying my best to get even more editor space.

ihack2712 · June 6, 2020, 5:43pm

You’re gonna save user content on your server?

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 5:45pm

If you click the “Save” icon on the top right, the code gets written into a folder and that code gets hosted, so basically you get instant hosting, if that’s what you meant.

ihack2712 · June 6, 2020, 5:45pm

And that is saved in your container?

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 5:46pm

Yes. Not a good idea, I know, and I’m currently looking for other options. But it doesn’t take too much of my space, somehow. I have around 50 folders right now, each containing an index.html, script.js and a style.js but so far it’s been only 4% of the disk.

ihack2712 · June 6, 2020, 5:47pm

Hahah, just be careful with that

khalby786 · June 6, 2020, 5:50pm

For anyone who’s interested: sample project made using GlitchyPastePen: https://glitchypastepen.glitch.me/p/obedient_magenta_bandicoot

ihack2712 · June 6, 2020, 5:52pm

You should also consider that this is a huge security risk to serve user-content under same domain.

RiversideRocks · June 6, 2020, 6:09pm

There could be a bit of an issue with XSS so just a heads up like @ihack2712 said.

ihack2712 · June 6, 2020, 6:15pm

XSS is not really the issue here though. Just make sure that your users don’t set cookies, because all other projects could potentionally fetch those cookies.

RiversideRocks · June 6, 2020, 6:32pm

Created a pull request @khalby786

khalby786 · June 7, 2020, 3:44am

I’m actually planning to create a new private project which will work as the back-end the whole thing.

RiversideRocks · June 27, 2020, 3:54pm

https://glitchypastepen.glitch.me/p/ugliest_copper_tern

khalby786 · June 28, 2020, 6:03am

Oooh, interesting use case of GlitchyPastePen.

TehPig_YT · June 28, 2020, 8:27am

Isn’t this a Megathread now?

random · June 28, 2020, 10:15am

Think so, let me change it

khalby786 · July 7, 2020, 6:42am

Also, continuing the discussion about databases we had earlier in this thread, @random had suggested MongoDB for “better security and easier UI”, I found Deta which has a more generous free tier than MongoDB.

random · July 7, 2020, 7:35am

do you wish to use that?

plus, any more work being scheduled @khalby786?

khalby786 · July 7, 2020, 12:15pm

Have a lot of ideas in my mind floating around, but I’m unsure when to make new updates.

ihack2712 · July 7, 2020, 4:07pm

That was rather expensive

random · July 7, 2020, 4:23pm

@ihack2712 ???

ihack2712 · July 7, 2020, 4:53pm

Nevermind, I misread your post, the free tier was actually quite generous, yes. I’d still just recommend buying a VPS with Contabo

khalby786 · July 10, 2020, 3:33pm

Currently fixing bugs and at the same time adding new features, nobody use GlitchyPastePen right now as there are some EJS/server bugs I’m fixing right now. @random?

khalby786 · July 10, 2020, 4:33pm

New update!

Fixed major backend problems involving EJS and server side fighting with each other for the GitHub user data.
Added a loader which disappears really fast (it disappears before you can even say “Wakanda forever”, you’re lucky if you happen to see it).

Fixed a lot of CSS bugs.

Fixed editor automatically switching to “Insert” mode.
Fix CSS bugs for the editor.

Kindly ignore a small settings icon in the footer of the editor, that was @random trying to get me to add items to the dropdown.

Next up, is a Vue rewrite.

Peace

khalby786 · July 12, 2020, 6:11am

I’m very much pleased (and overjoyed) to inform you that the editor now has Intelligent code completion or IntelliSense or automatic code completion. Previously, we did add it to our Ace.js configuration, but because of not enabling “live code completion”, it did not work as we expected. Credit to @random for enabling and including the basic autocompletion plugin.

TurboBiscuit · July 12, 2020, 7:35am

slight problem, cant delete projects

khalby786 · July 12, 2020, 7:53am

Ok, will check that out.

khalby786 · July 12, 2020, 12:20pm

@TurboBiscuit I was able to delete projects without any problems. If you face that issue again, can you check the DevTools for any errors?

anon69241012 · July 13, 2020, 3:21pm

This new look reminds me of Glitch…

anon69241012 · July 13, 2020, 3:31pm

And here’s a bug I experienced… Signed in and

khalby786 · July 13, 2020, 4:26pm

Hey @anon69241012,

Thanks for reporting this bug!

Are you facing this issue randomly or every time you login?
Are you still facing this issue?
Next time you encounter this error, kindly check the DevTools console and report here for any relevant errors.

I also believe this might be caused by the Github downtime which happened earlier today, nevertheless I will still be monitoring the logs by outputting it to a file so that I can inspect it.

Have a great day!

anon69241012 · July 13, 2020, 4:31pm

It’s fixed now. And wow - the github profile image is the favicon

random · July 13, 2020, 4:33pm

@anon69241012 there was in fact some issues with github and its API this morning

anon69241012 · July 13, 2020, 4:34pm

Yeah. It was my first time so I took a peek around and it looks pretty good - and @khalby786

random · July 13, 2020, 4:35pm

thanks for the feedback!

that little menu will host our options when it comes to it

anon69241012 · July 13, 2020, 4:35pm

Also, how about adding a Netlify or repl.it edition if possible because it takes a long time to load.

random · July 13, 2020, 4:36pm

we’ll consider it!

khalby786 · July 14, 2020, 3:03am

I’m looking at Heroku right now…

khalby786 · July 15, 2020, 7:17am

I have now included instructions on remixing GlitchyPastePen in the original post of this thread/README.

khalby786 · August 29, 2020, 5:22pm

Hey everyone,

As part of the friendly competition with @code-alt’s Blockly editor, I’ve updated GPP’s UI including a new theme for the editor. I’ve also added small new features, like a working DevTools for your browser (it works only in Chrome unfortunately), option to copy your code and show the live page in a new tab. And I’m loving SweetAlert2.

Do check it out and make sure to give me feedback, especially on stuff I can improve and how I could improve it.

What do you say about an “Export to GitHub” option?

RiversideRocks · August 29, 2020, 5:24pm

What do you say about an “Export to GitHub” option?

Would love that! Could you set up export to pastebin too?

code-alt · August 29, 2020, 5:25pm

It’s happening

@khalby786 can I see the site lol

khalby786 · August 29, 2020, 5:29pm

khalby786 · August 29, 2020, 5:30pm

That’s a nice idea, will do it!

youngchief · August 29, 2020, 5:31pm

@khalby786 How did you do the project health status thing?

RiversideRocks · August 29, 2020, 5:32pm

Also, I am having a few issues linking my style.css file.
https://glitchypastepen.glitch.me/p/artificial_orange_tapir

random · August 30, 2020, 7:24am

We used express-status-monitor

Assfugil · September 4, 2020, 7:58am

Why can’t I change the project name?

khalby786 · September 4, 2020, 7:59am

Hey @Assfugil, that is still not a feature, I’ll be adding it soon though.

Assfugil · September 4, 2020, 8:00am

also I can’t delete my projects @khalby786

khalby786 · September 4, 2020, 8:07am

Hey @Assfugil, it works fine for me, can you try again and refresh your page a bit? Because I think it’s being cached.

Assfugil · September 4, 2020, 8:08am

Uncaught ReferenceError: remove is not defined @khalby786
at HTMLImageElement.onclick (VM191 Assfugil:187)

khalby786 · September 4, 2020, 8:09am

Yes, I get it, there’s no need to ping me @Assfugil, I’ll check again and see what’s happening, thanks for reporting this!

Assfugil · September 4, 2020, 9:19am

@khalby786 well help I can’t even login (site didn’t respond)

khalby786 · September 4, 2020, 10:28am

How are you facing so many issues? Which browser are you using?

khalby786 · September 4, 2020, 10:35am

Ok, so big news.

Glitch reinstalling node_modules all the time has caused a lot of SQLite problems and our SQLite databases have been filled.

Good news: I’ll switch to MongoDB and everything will be good.

Bad news: the files related to projects created by you will still be present in the container but details like the names and respective owners might be lost.

Just to be clear: our SQLite databases do not store the contents of a project, they only store data like name of the project and the author.

My sincere apologies for such an inconvenience!

P. S.: This might take some while, I’m not at home

@random

random · September 4, 2020, 11:40am

Why did you ping…

code-alt · September 4, 2020, 3:25pm

I could not have said that better.

Assfugil · September 5, 2020, 12:43pm

thanks! I can login now.

Also will you consider increasing the maximum project size? Currently it seems to be slightly less than 100KB. @khalby786

khalby786 · September 5, 2020, 1:03pm

You can login and do all basic stuff, except for deleting projects, bug has been identified.

I wasn’t aware of such a limit, maybe there’s a file size limit for files created using fs. Also, projects made count towards to the Glitch container of 512 MB. So that limit is kinda useful.

khalby786 · September 5, 2020, 1:20pm

I’ve made an important decision regarding this thread.

To prevent this thread from being really huge (and being “licked”) and to comply with Tasha’s recent post that service updates for a project shouldn’t be posted in the forum, all outages, scheduled maintenance and updates will be posted on our status page which is at https://glitchypastepen.statuspage.io.
Any new features for GPP will be added to the original post.

khalby786 · September 5, 2020, 1:41pm

Should I create a Discourse forum (or similar) for posting updates, announcements, etc.?

Yes
No

0 voters

Assfugil · September 5, 2020, 4:10pm

the limit is imposed by express.json() or bodyParser.json().

the limit can be set by doing something like this:

bodyParser.json({ limit: '301kb' })

khalby786 · September 5, 2020, 4:34pm

Thanks for finding that out, I’ll make sure to add that!

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 10:41am

@Assfugil can you explain why you have created more than 2000 projects and filled my entire disk space again?

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 10:49am

@Assfugil and I can see that you just logged in!

random · September 7, 2020, 10:50am

@khalby786 bad news, this topic might be closed for being a megathread

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 10:51am

I know that, Glitch Support please bear with me until I figure this out.

Assfugil · September 7, 2020, 10:51am

what is the problem with a megathread

random · September 7, 2020, 10:52am

Tasha has told everyone that megathreads are not allowed in #the-gallery

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 10:53am

@Assfugil I need answers

random · September 7, 2020, 10:54am

@khalby786 maybe we could consider moving our storage location? Like to a place like… Dropbox maybe?

it’ll be easier to manage and somewhat bigger

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 10:55am

I’m open to suggestions. Thing is, we need to make it easier to serve as well.

random · September 7, 2020, 10:57am

Well, any ideas?

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 11:01am

Or we could make it in another project…

random · September 7, 2020, 11:02am

Or deploy to GH pages maybe?

Assfugil · September 7, 2020, 11:03am

now that’s a good idea

random · September 7, 2020, 11:04am

I mean there are APIs, we could use them.

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 11:11am

I’ll request Tasha to close this thread as soon as we get the thumbs up from Discourse.

random · September 7, 2020, 11:12am

Sounds good!

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 11:14am

Here’s the plan: we continue saving files to the same container (until a really good idea comes up) but this time, a user has limits on the number of projects they can create. And @Assfugil is banned.

khalby786 · September 7, 2020, 12:03pm

This might actually happen.

Jonyk56 · September 8, 2020, 12:45pm

@khalby786 I may or may not have come up with some plans on how to allow ya to run things like c++, c, java, nodejs, and such, all within the project…

also, check ur messages on here

random · September 8, 2020, 12:55pm

can I be invited to the message?

code-alt · September 8, 2020, 2:54pm

You need ten plus people working on the project in order to get free hosting from discourse

code-alt · September 8, 2020, 7:25pm

You’d need hours of work, to come up with that successfully. I’d love to see it!

RiversideRocks · September 8, 2020, 7:29pm

It is doable. If you can run strings over the terminal, you should be able to do it as those languages are install.

You might want to sanitise user input (watch for &&) or prevent bash/terminal injections.

javaarchive · September 8, 2020, 9:33pm

you might want to allow more than one html file for multipage experiences and add a file browser tree somewhere.

code-alt · September 8, 2020, 9:34pm

I’m adding support for lua on my end…

Of course, you may know what I’m talking about!..

gotta download em’ all

khalby786 · September 9, 2020, 2:07am

Something similar to this?

You guys haven’t seen the new and updated editor, have you?

code-alt · September 9, 2020, 2:28am

Iḿ assuming your going to add an “Add File” button?

and yes I saw the new editor before you posted.

may I have explanation for the devtools from the demo page, they don’t work

I thought, in glitchy paste pen, since your github hub photo is a bagel that is frosted with high levels of sugar, that you’d add frosted bagel images

khalby786 · September 9, 2020, 2:35am

You asked for it, I’m gonna give you an essay. Soon.

code-alt · September 9, 2020, 2:36am

An essay on DevTools?

Lol, I know what devtools are and do.

khalby786 · September 9, 2020, 2:38am

You asked for why the DevTools of the demo page doesn’t work, not what DevTools is. And I know that you know what DevTools is.

code-alt · September 9, 2020, 2:39am

Oh, what if I didn’t know at this moment

(that would be hilarious)

bagel is my favorite md emoji now

khalby786 · September 9, 2020, 2:40am

FYI, that’s a donut.

khalby786 · September 9, 2020, 2:40am

Then, your question would have been different at the first place. Plus, you can always ask your preferred search engine for help.

code-alt · September 9, 2020, 2:42am

no I like calling them frosted deep fried pastries with high levels of sugar and HOLES lol

And I have been on google forum bc I don’t understand a dang thing of google (possibly not even the search engine)

@khalby786 loves em’ deep fried pastries

(I also don’t know bing, duckduckgo, and pretty much every search engine)

I DO know one command, and that’s the plagiarism checker with quotes so you can check if anyone’s stealing your blog titles

khalby786 · September 9, 2020, 2:52am

Facepalm x100

The “DevTools” in the GlitchyPastePen editor is actually an iframe of a remote debugging tool with the Chrome DevTools called Chii, which was set up on another Glitch project. For it to work, you need to add a script tag to your project:

<script src="http://gpp-debug.glitch.me/target.js"></script>

And then when you click on the DevTools button and the iframe pops up, after the Waking Up screen, you should see your project’s URL listed there. Once you click on your project’s URL, you’ll get Chrome DevTools debugging tools for that website.

And this Chii tool has browser compatibility issues, although it’s a bit troublesome.

Hopefully.

Hence proved.

code-alt · September 9, 2020, 3:00am

Chili is used by very little people. It’s very good, but I’d make it a little bit easier to understand.

(immediately takes notes of the inspect tool like samsung)

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