Two caches, one on each side. In the browser, the response is stored in Cache Storage keyed by the server's ETag, so the transfer is paid once per device rather than once per visit. A stored copy opens without the gate: consent was given the first time and reuse costs no network. A redeploy changes the ETag, so the new version replaces the old instead of answering with last week's data, and every older version of that database is dropped so one dataset never occupies the disk twice. When the server cannot be reached at all, any stored version is used, which incidentally makes the site work offline. Storing is best effort — a full disk means downloading again next time, which is no reason to fail the page. The response is cached from a clone while the original is read for the progress bar, rather than buffering the file a second time in the one place where memory is already the binding constraint. In CI, the built databases are cached on the inputs that determine them: data/**, parser/** and datasets.json. Parsing 348 MB of spreadsheets is the slow part of the job, and a web or docs change cannot alter a database, so those pushes restore instead of rebuilding. Exact matches only — no restore-keys, since a near-miss would publish databases built from inputs the commit does not describe.
thptqg
Tra cứu điểm thi THPT Quốc gia — exam-score lookup for Vietnam's national high
school graduation exam. Client-side SQL over a SQLite database the browser
downloads once and queries in memory, built
from the published .xls/.xlsx score files by the Go parser module. Where
those files come from: data pipeline.
Live at tiennm99.github.io/thptqg.
| Dataset | Exam | Candidates | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
2016 |
2016 | 877,460 | /2016/ |
2017 |
2017 | 861,068 | /2017/ |
Two earlier 2017 publications (2017-old, 2017-old2) were kept for a while
because they disagreed with the current one. They have been removed; they remain
in git history.
Layout
The repository is one directory per pipeline stage, plus the two stores they pass between them.
crawler/ Go — re-fetches the source spreadsheets → data/
parser/ Go — Excel to SQLite data/ → .db
assembler/ Go — verifies, compresses, builds, assembles .db + web/ → _site/
web/ npm — the frontend, one SvelteKit app for every dataset
data/<id>/ raw Excel files, one directory per dataset
datasets.json the registry: which datasets exist, and their expected size
docs/ architecture, data pipeline, deployment
Each stage runs on its own and hands its output to the next through the stores.
web/ is the only npm project; the three stages are independent Go modules.
datasets.json is the contract between them. It is JSON because Go and the web
app both read it and neither needs a dependency to do so; presentation stays in
web/src/lib/datasets.js, keyed by id, which fails loudly if the two disagree.
The dataset id is one identifier end to end:
data/2017/ → parser/configs/2017.yml → db/2017.sqlite3 → /thptqg/2017/
Build
(cd web && npm ci)
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble # databases, then the site, into _site/
npx serve _site
That one command compiles the parser, builds and verifies each database against
its registry row count, compresses it, builds the web app and assembles _site —
refusing to continue if a database is short, an artifact looks truncated, or one
is missing altogether. Sub-steps when iterating:
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble db 2017 # one database
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble site # web build and _site only
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble verify A B # compare two sets of databases
(cd web && npm run dev) # the app against staged databases
The source spreadsheets are committed, so a crawl is only needed to refresh them:
go -C crawler run ./cmd/crawl 2016
go -C crawler run ./cmd/crawl 2017
Each reads the download links out of the article that published the dataset, so no link list is kept in the repository. Crawling is idempotent — files already present are skipped — and is never part of the build.
Pushing to main runs the same steps in
.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml and publishes to GitHub Pages.
Adding a dataset
- Put the Excel files in
data/<id>/ - Add
parser/configs/<id>.yml— sheet mode, column indices, validation guards. No SQL; the schema is canonical. - Add an entry to
datasets.jsonwith its expected row count and size - Add the matching presentation to
CONTENTinweb/src/lib/datasets.js
Everything else follows: the assembler, the router and the hub all read the registry, and the UI adapts to whichever columns the dataset fills. Steps 3 and 4 check each other, so forgetting either one fails rather than half-working.
Docs
See docs/ — overview,
architecture,
data pipeline,
deployment.