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How would I go about creating an alternative frontend for a website? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago by Debuholden to c/programming

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Ok, so I've been thinking for a bit, and I know there's a ton of alternative "libre" frontends for websites like YouTube and Reddit. However, I was thinking: what If I just wanted to make my own frontend? Not specifically for the intentions of "libre", but I wanted to change the controls and appearence of the website. I'm honestly unsure of how to approach this. Any thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have no experience. Anyway:

learn how to make a basic website in some flexible programming language like go, rust or python (django)
make a list of functionality of your original website you want to provide an alternative frontend for (as a start, you can expand later)
find a way to retrieve all important data for the most important functionality reliably
implement it into your website
make it fancy, expand functionality, use the same webpaths for you website like as the original (so it can easily be redirected with libredirect or similar)

You can also look at and analyze the source code of existing Libre frontends like rimgo (go).