This complete "refactoring" of the site code became necessary because the site was my first real php project, and somehow doing this in my spare time I had gotten into the bad habit of writing "quick fixes" here and there. As all developers know.. bad code becomes unmanageable and simple features that should take 2 to 3h to develop would take far more time... or I ended up procrastinating on them.

In particular developing greater interaction in the pages with Javascript can become a mess real fast between the server side php code, the client side javascript, html, css... The lightweight framework I'm working on has already helped me solve these problems.

For example in the Trinity alpha I added some nifty tables that can be sorted in Ajax which are "components" which I can include anywhere and display any kind of data. The component itself has its own html "view", associated javascript, php backend, etc

I am now rewriting the Leitner Stacks display with this component structure. The next big thing will be rewriting the review page into a Review component, so that any enhancements such as pre-fetching cards will work accross the whole site, for kanji review, vocab reviews and sentence reviews in Trinity.