mycu rocket edition™ #

mycu.cedarville.edu is a simple link directory which currently manages to use two frameworks, 63 requests and 5 MB of markup + re-downloading the catalog on every navigation. this does it slightly more elegantly

	myCU	this
requests	63	6
transferred	1.05 MB	93 KB
decompressed	4.98 MB	265 KB
first contentful paint	560 ms	~150 ms
catalog fetch	72 KB, every navigation	0, it's in the bundle
search	server round trip	~0.5 ms, local

Refreshing the catalog #

Run src/catalog/sync.js in the console on connect.cedarville.edu while signed in, or save it as a bookmarklet.

mv ~/Downloads/mycu-tasks.json data/
bun run pack     # rewrites src/catalog/catalog.json

We drop announcements since they change fairly often and also strip the dump from 412 KB to 175 KB by dropping unused fields, interning categories, and folding each task's keywords and department into one deduplicated search blob.