Backend

This folder contains all backend-only code in this project. It's broken up into:

• index.ts - this is the entrypoint for this whole project
• database/ - this contains the code for interfacing with the app's SQLite database table

This app uses Hono has the a server application framework. You can think of Hono as a replacement for ExpressJS that works in serverless environments like Val Town or Cloudflare Workers. If you come from Python or Ruby, Hono is also a lot like Flask or Sinatra, respectively.

This HTML server is responsible for serving all static assets to the browser to render the app, including HTML, JavaScript (including all client-side React), CSS, and even the favicon SVG. As of this writing Val Town only supports text files, which is why the favicon is an SVG and not an .ico or any other binary image format. If you need binary file storage, check out Blob Storage.