simplify addServer/pingHistory & placeholder generation prior to optimizations

assets/js/app.js

@@ -102,26 +102,29 @@ export class App {
       .reduce((sum, current) => sum + current, 0)
   }
 
-  addServer = (serverId, pings, timestampPoints) => {
+  addServer = (serverId, payload, timestampPoints) => {
     // Even if the backend has never pinged the server, the frontend is promised a placeholder object.
     // result = undefined
     // error = defined with "Waiting" description
     // info = safely defined with configured data
-    const latestPing = pings[pings.length - 1]
     const serverRegistration = this.serverRegistry.createServerRegistration(serverId)
 
-    serverRegistration.initServerStatus(latestPing)
+    serverRegistration.initServerStatus(payload)
 
+    // pingHistory is only defined when the backend has previous ping data
+    // undefined pingHistory means this is a placeholder ping generated by the backend
+    if (typeof payload.pingHistory !== 'undefined') {
       // Push the historical data into the graph
       // This will trim and format the data so it is ready for the graph to render once init
-    serverRegistration.addGraphPoints(pings, timestampPoints)
+      serverRegistration.addGraphPoints(payload.pingHistory, timestampPoints)
+    }
 
     // Create the plot instance internally with the restructured and cleaned data
     serverRegistration.buildPlotInstance()
 
     // Handle the last known state (if any) as an incoming update
     // This triggers the main update pipeline and enables centralized update handling
-    serverRegistration.updateServerStatus(latestPing, true, this.publicConfig.minecraftVersions)
+    serverRegistration.updateServerStatus(payload, this.publicConfig.minecraftVersions)
 
     // Allow the ServerRegistration to bind any DOM events with app instance context
     serverRegistration.initEventListeners()

assets/js/servers.js

@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ export class ServerRegistration {
   }
 
   addGraphPoints (points, timestampPoints) {
-    // Test if the first point contains error.placeholder === true
-    // This is sent by the backend when the server hasn't been pinged yet
-    // These points will be disregarded to prevent the graph starting at 0 player count
-    points = points.filter(point => !point.error || !point.error.placeholder)
-
     for (let i = 0; i < points.length; i++) {
       const point = points[i]
       const timestamp = timestampPoints[i]
@@ -164,7 +159,7 @@ export class ServerRegistration {
     this.lastPeakData = data
   }
 
-  updateServerStatus (ping, isInitialUpdate, minecraftVersions) {
+  updateServerStatus (ping, minecraftVersions) {
     if (ping.versions) {
       const versionsElement = document.getElementById('version_' + this.serverId)
 
@@ -214,8 +209,7 @@ export class ServerRegistration {
       document.getElementById('player-count-value_' + this.serverId).innerText = formatNumber(ping.result.players.online)
 
       // An updated favicon has been sent, update the src
-      // Ignore calls from 'add' events since they will have explicitly manually handled the favicon update
+      if (ping.favicon) {
-      if (!isInitialUpdate && ping.favicon) {
         document.getElementById('favicon_' + this.serverId).setAttribute('src', ping.favicon)
       }
     }

assets/js/socket.js

@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ export class SocketManager {
             }
           }
 
-          payload.servers.forEach((pings, serverId) => {
+          payload.servers.forEach((serverPayload, serverId) => {
-            this._app.addServer(serverId, pings, payload.timestampPoints)
+            this._app.addServer(serverId, serverPayload, payload.timestampPoints)
           })
 
           if (payload.mojangServices) {
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ export class SocketManager {
             if (serverRegistration) {
               serverRegistration.handlePing(serverUpdate, payload.timestamp)
 
-              serverRegistration.updateServerStatus(serverUpdate, payload.timestamp, false, this._app.publicConfig.minecraftVersions)
+              serverRegistration.updateServerStatus(serverUpdate, this._app.publicConfig.minecraftVersions)
             }
 
             // Use update payloads to conditionally append data to graph

config.json

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 		"connectTimeout": 2500
 	},
 	"performance": {
-		"skipUnfurlSrv": false
+		"skipUnfurlSrv": true
 	},
-	"logToDatabase": false,
+	"logToDatabase": true,
 	"graphDuration": 86400000,
 	"serverGraphDuration": 180000
 }

lib/servers.js

@@ -113,17 +113,6 @@ class ServerRegistration {
 
   getPingHistory () {
     if (this._pingHistory.length > 0) {
-      const pingHistory = []
-
-      for (let i = 0; i < this._pingHistory.length - 1; i++) {
-        pingHistory[i] = this._pingHistory[i]
-      }
-
-      // Insert the latest update manually into the array
-      // This is a mutated copy of the last update to contain live metadata
-      // The metadata is used by the frontend for rendering
-      const lastPing = this._pingHistory[this._pingHistory.length - 1]
-
       const payload = {
         versions: this.versions,
         recordData: this.recordData,
@@ -138,6 +127,11 @@ class ServerRegistration {
         payload.graphPeakData = graphPeakData
       }
 
+      // Insert the latest update manually into the array
+      // This is a mutated copy of the last update to contain live metadata
+      // The metadata is used by the frontend for rendering
+      const lastPing = this._pingHistory[this._pingHistory.length - 1]
+
       // Conditionally append to avoid defining fields with undefined values
       if (lastPing.result) {
         payload.result = lastPing.result
@@ -145,21 +139,20 @@ class ServerRegistration {
         payload.error = lastPing.error
       }
 
-      // Insert the reconstructed update as the last entry
+      // Send a copy of pingHistory
-      // pingHistory is already sorted during its copy from _pingHistory
+      // Omit the last value since it is contained within payload
-      pingHistory.push(payload)
+      payload.pingHistory = this._pingHistory.slice(0, this._pingHistory.length - 1)
 
-      return pingHistory
+      return payload
     }
 
-    return [{
+    return {
       error: {
-        message: 'Waiting...',
+        message: 'Pinging...'
-        placeholder: true
       },
       recordData: this.recordData,
       graphPeakData: this.getGraphPeak()
-    }]
+    }
   }
 
   loadGraphPoints (points) {