webring

.gitignore

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+node_modules
+webring.txt

index.mjs

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+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import express from 'express';
+
+const sites = fs.readFileSync('./webring.txt', 'utf-8')
+	// split lines
+	.split(/\r?\n/)
+	// trim whitespace from each line
+	.map(site => site.trim())
+	// exclude empty lines and lines that start with # because why not
+	.filter(site => site && !site.startsWith('#'));
+
+console.log(sites);
+
+// modulo that does the right thing with negatives
+// https://stackoverflow.com/a/4467559
+const mod = (n, m) => ((n % m) + m) % m;
+
+function handle (offset, request, response) {
+	const from = request.query.from;
+	const index = sites.findIndex(site => site === from);
+	if (!from || index === -1) {
+		response.status(400).send('the provided site is not in the webring');
+		return;
+	}
+	response.redirect(301, sites[mod(index + offset, sites.length)]);
+}
+
+express()
+	.get('/prev', (request, response) => handle(-1, request, response))
+	.get('/next', (request, response) => handle(+1, request, response))
+	.listen(process.env.PORT || 8080, () => {
+		console.log('doing the thing');
+	})

package.json

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+{
+  "name": "webring-shit",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "keywords": [],
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "ISC",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "express": "^4.18.2"
+  }
+}

webring.txt.sample

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+https://example.com
+https://example.org
+https://example.net/~someone
+https://example.net/~otherone