This repository is now deprecated. See metaforecast's monorepo instead.

This is the source code for the metaforecast.org webpage. This is a Next.js project initially created with create-next-app. It searches a database produced using metaforecasts using Algolia (previously Fuse).

Getting Started

Run the development server:

npm run dev
# or
yarn dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Project structure

• The main file is pages/index.js.
• lib/display/ contains files which produce display elements. Of these, displayForecasts.js is the most important one.
• lib/workers/ contains files which interact with outside servers, or which are particularly computation intensive

In general, there is a tradeoff between:

• Using getStaticProps. Pros: Static site generation, getting everything on initial page load
• Using: getServerSideProps. Pros: Being able to make queries right after the initial page load, to e.g. parse the url
• Using neither. Pros: Page is much lighter. Cons: Searches take slightly slower.

The way I deal with this right now is with the somewhat clunky processState function in index.js, which keeps track of whether initial page load has been dealt with and of whether the search parameters have been changed.