Draft: refactor: Golang

https://gitlab.com/sirimangalo/meditation-plus/-/issues/?sort=created_asc&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=refactoring%3A%3Ago&first_page_size=20

Technical TODOs

• Store sessions in a db
• Invalidate session on user changes
• Restructure everything under pkg
• Design
• Replace hard-coded RedirectURL with env
• Remove over-abstraction of FormWidget
• Integrate FontAwesome
• Re-add Navigation Design
• Add Renovate

Some ideas for a rewrite and their reasoning.

Technology

Problems

• SPAs result in a lot of overhead, since state is being transformed and interpreted multiple times (db -> js -> json -> js -> etc.)
• JS development has become quite complex
• Maintenance is time-consuming
• The build process often is a big blackbox
• A lot of dependencies require constant maintenance. Currently there are 1367 client-side and 610 server-side dependencies in total (including build dependencies)
• Stylus is abdonaned, SASS/SCSS is slow and Angular Material very complex and coupled
• The backend has no type system
• A lot of complex technology involed isn't necessary (like websockets)

Proposal

• MPA in Golang 1.22+ with mostly stdlib-only
• Twitter Bootstrap as compiled CSS
• Web Components for more advanced client-side functionality (like meditation circle)
• The least possible and maintainable amount of dependencies

Basic Funtionality

• Reimplement At-Home Meditation Course (#334 (closed))
• Reimplement Ask (#348)
• Reimplement Meditation Session (#345 (closed))
• Remove Chat, Testimonials

Basic Roadmap

• Rewrite the basic functionality of Login, Signup, Meditation and Meditation Course in its purest form
• Publish as an alternative/beta version
• Gather feedback and refine implementation
• Evaluate which additional features are still required
• Reimplement missing features
• Replace the current version