Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t

Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by tlarkworthy on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:26AM (#25966775)

I worked in field robotics and sometimes you would find yourself in a boat without internet fixing robotic software problems at sea.

I took 50GB of wiki resources mirrored in my pocket.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by easton on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:58AM (#25967210)

Dash is fantastic for this. You can download all of stackoverflow and docs for most languages and keep them on your system if you want to go offline.

https://kapeli.com/dash

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by tuankiet65 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @09:47AM (#25969484)

Zeal is similar and cross-platform. I think Zeal takes its docs from Dash though.

https://zealdocs.org/

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by syferfyre on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:09PM (#25971341)

When I try to download zeal for mac, it redirects me to the dash website.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by mellow-lake-day on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:02AM (#25967232)

Too bad that website doesn't specify how much space that all takes. Would be interesting to know.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by Kwpolska on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:08AM (#25967525)

I checked, and it’s split per language/library/framework. The SO offline docset for Python is 2.2 GB, and the docset for JS is 3.02 GB right now.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by mellow-lake-day on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:48AM (#26061831)

Awesome thanks! That's not too bad!

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by bryanrasmussen on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:13AM (#25967292)

Do you really need to know? I doubt it takes up more than 30 GB, you're not downloading all of StackOverflow, just the content.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by mellow-lake-day on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:47AM (#26061830)

Yeah because the SSD on my laptop isn't that big. It's 240 GB. Most of which is already filled.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by rgomez on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:46AM (#25976669)

An alternative way of having offline documentation directly in the browser: https://devdocs.io/

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by RMPR on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:00AM (#25967484)

While it's not for documentation per se, I think archivebox[0] can be very useful for that use case.

Disclaimer: I never used it, just came across this a while ago and thought it was cool.

0: https://archivebox.io/

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by MattGaiser on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:35AM (#25966806)

What did you include?

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by tlarkworthy on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:02AM (#25967495)

The Robot operating system wiki mirror[1] + python resources [2]

[1] http://wiki.ros.org/Mirrors [2] https://docs.python.org/3/download.html

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by baxtr on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:49AM (#25967162)

I was thinking about a situation similar to that in web development. But if there’s no internet, a web application doesn’t make that much sense does it...

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by sdenton4 on Saturday January 30, 2021 @03:01AM (#25967225)

I'm thinking back to a real dumb django 'web' frontend I built for a raspberry pi camera project once...

The whole idea was to have a page I could load from a laptop attached to the pi via a ethernet cable for quick debugging and interaction. No external internet needed, and did the job decently.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by canofbars on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:06AM (#25967518)

Our office lost internet connection for a day. We just connected to our phones and continued on.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by ProZsolt on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:04AM (#25978504)

I regularly coded (pre COVID) on transatlantic flights.

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by antpls on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:56AM (#25966920)

What software did you use to browse/search in it?

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by tlarkworthy on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @02:03AM (#26074698)

Grep

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Re:Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t by dvdbloc on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:42AM (#25967130)

Sounds like a future Starlink customer

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