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Jade better

Enables anyone to hit the site and receive JSON. I think I only want to support JSON at the moment, but if someone wants to contribute other formats like XML or YAML or something, that'd be cool 😎

I want the URL to hit be any url with data, suffixed with .json. So if, for example, http://elitemarkettracker.com/system/LHS-3448/ shows a bunch of info for that specific system and its stations, etc, then http://elitemarkettracker.com/system/LHS-3448/.json should return the JSON for that. Shouldn't be hard to implement.

I'm a plain ol' front-end dev who just happens to know a now-backend language (JS/CS). I suck at databases. Really bad. Any help or input on how to structure this database would be great 😎! All I'm really asking for is some direction on how I should handle the structure of the Station -> Commodities Market. There is a lot of repeated information inside of the way I'm thinking, which would be something like:

{
  name: "Abraham Lincoln Gateway"
  system: "Sol"
  type: "station"
  market: [
    {
      category: "Chemicals"
      name: "Explosives"
      buy: 123
      sell: 321
      isRare: false
      date: "2015-01-11T23:20:10.345Z"
    }
    {
      category: "Chemicals"
      name: "Hydrogen Fuels"
      buy: 456
      sell: 123
      isRare: false
      date: "2015-01-11T23:25:35.526Z"
    }
  ]
}

{
  name: "Dalton Gateway"
  system: "LHS 3447"
  type: "station"
  market: [
    {
      category: "Chemicals"
      name: "Explosives"
      buy: 232
      sell: 121
      isRare: false
      date: "2015-01-11T23:20:10.345Z"
    }
    {
      category: "Chemicals"
      name: "Hydrogen Fuels"
      buy: 787
      sell: 542
      isRare: false
      date: "2015-01-11T23:25:35.526Z"
    }
  ]
}

I think it might be a better way to optimize this—maybe, maybe not, but I'm not knowledgable on the subject enough to decide that.

I'm a huge proponent of semantic things, so the URL should reflect that.

Find and use a nice test suite for Meteor projects. I'm liking the look of Velocity http://velocity.meteor.com/

Keeping the syntax the same across all languages 😎

There should be a dashboard where you can build your own graphs. This is gonna be a hard one to crack, but I want it in :)