Move the frontend into web/, the repo's only npm workspace, and replace the JS crawler with a Go module covering both remaining datasets. The crawler writes to a .part file and renames on completion: writing straight to the destination left truncated files that the skip-if-present check would then skip forever. Remove the 2017-old and 2017-old2 datasets. They were successive publications of the same exam, kept side by side so the disagreement stayed inspectable; the current 2017 supersedes them and they remain in git history. Recover the 2016 crawler source from the Internet Archive's copy of the aggregator article, whose original host no longer resolves. All 119 filenames are verified against data/2016 in both directions, but no archive captured the spreadsheets themselves, so the host still serving them is unconfirmed and data/2016 remains the only confirmed copy. Filenames are load-bearing throughout: go-parser sorts inputs bytewise and inserts last-wins, so they decide which row survives a duplicate exam number.
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Deployment Guide
Deploys to GitHub Pages via .github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml. Every push to
main rebuilds both datasets and redeploys the whole site.
One-time setup: Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions.
What the workflow does
- Checkout, Go toolchain, Node 24,
npm ci npm run build:go— one parser binarynpm run build:db— builds and gzips both databases into.build/public/db/npm run build:site— one Vite build, thenweb/scripts/assemble-site.jsactions/upload-pages-artifact+actions/deploy-pages
The database build dominates the runtime: roughly 419 MB of Excel is parsed on every deploy.
Resulting URLs
https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/
https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/2016/
https://<user>.github.io/thptqg/2017/
/thptqg/2017/old/ and /thptqg/2017/old2/ were the pre-flattening URLs for
the two removed 2017 archives. They are no longer served; like any unknown path
they now render the hub via 404.html.
Local reproduction
npm ci
npm run build:go
npm run build:db # both; pass an id to build just one
npm run build:site # vite build + assemble into _site/
npx serve _site
To rebuild a single dataset:
npm run build:db 2017
Base path
vite.config.js sets base: "/thptqg/". If you fork under a different repo
name, update it to match — assets are referenced absolutely, so a mismatch shows
up as a blank page with 404s on /assets/....
Adding a dataset
- Put the Excel files in
data/<id>/ - Add
go-parser/configs/<id>.ymlwith the parse rules — sheet mode, column indices, SBD validation, header tokens, blank-row stripping. No SQL: the schema is canonical and lives ingo-parser/internal/schema/schema.go - Add an entry to
DATASETSinweb/src/datasets.js
Nothing else. The build script, the site assembly and the router all read that one list, and the frontend adapts to whichever columns the dataset populates.
Why no uncompressed database can ship
build-db.js runs gzip -9 without -k, so the raw file does not survive
the build. assemble-site.js then fails the job if any .db, .db-journal,
.db-wal or .db-shm reached the output.
Both guards exist because the previous pipeline wrote a 100+ MB uncompressed
database into the source tree and relied on an rm step to keep it out of the
artifact — one missing line away from publishing it.
Notes
- The gzipped database is not cacheable across deploys. Every rebuild
produces a different
.db.gz, because SQLite does not lay pages out deterministically. First-visit users pay the full download; later visits hit browser cache until the next deploy. - GitHub Pages caps individual files at 100 MB. The largest gzipped database
is about 48 MB. Uncompressed they run 135–234 MB and would not fit — which is
why the browser decompresses via
DecompressionStream. - No server-side compression is assumed. The app fetches the
.gzbytes directly rather than relying onContent-Encoding: gzip; Pages does not reliably compress arbitrary paths on the fly. - Total artifact is about 177 MB, well inside the 1 GB site limit.
Rollback
Deploys are stateless snapshots. Revert the commit on main and push; the next
run rebuilds the older state. There is no data to migrate.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Typical cause |
|---|---|
| Blank page, 404 on assets | base in vite.config.js does not match the repo name |
Failed to fetch database: 404 |
Dataset id in web/src/datasets.js does not match the file in db/ |
| A route 404s | assemble-site.js did not run, or the id is missing from DATASETS |
| WASM fails to load | sql.js.org unreachable — self-host sql-wasm.wasm and update SQL_WASM_URL in use-sqlite.js |
| Deploy fails on assembly | An uncompressed database artefact reached the output; the error names the files |
| Missing rows after a data update | Unknown Excel header — check the per-file row counts the parser prints |