Factorio Prints

Hey guys, I made a thing. It's a site for sharing Factorio blueprints at factorioprints.com that I'm calling Factorio Prints. It's heavily inspired by the dormant site Factorio Blueprints.

Factorio Prints has a lot of the same functionality as Factorio Blueprints. You can share blueprint strings, along with a screenshot and description. You can mark your favorites.

It has some functionality that Factorio Blueprints never supported

• The descriptions are written using GitHub Flavored Markdown, which is similar to Reddit's markdown. You can use it to link blueprints to similar ones, for example.
• Each blueprint has a Disqus comment section where you can crush people's dreams by pointing out the one inserter facing the wrong way.
• Updates are live. New blueprints will appear in the browser as people create them. The number of favorites increments instantly. Etc.
• Login using Google, Facebook, Twitter, or GitHub.

I didn't implement everything that Factorio Blueprints supports

• Search! I'm hoping to make Factorio Prints easily searchable using Google, but at the moment there's no great way to search.
• Extracting meaning from the blueprints. Factorio Blueprints parses the blueprint string and lists how many parts are used of each type.
• Lists of newly added and most favorited blueprints.
• Button to copy the blueprint string to the clipboard.
• Log in using Steam, Twitch, or username and password.

I wrote Factorio Prints to learn

The main reason that I wrote this is to learn JavaScript. React to be specific. I am a programmer, but I've never written a website before.

I also wrote this because I used to love Factorio Blueprints when it worked well. It helped me a lot when I was getting into the game. One of the major updates to Factorio broke older blueprint strings. And something broke in the site with image hosting. Now the site is basically defunct.

This is not a fork of Factorio Blueprints

The user interface is heavily inspired by it, and both sites use Bootstrap. But it's a complete rewrite.

Factorio Blueprints was written using Meteor, which you couldn't pay me to use. My main goal was to learn React. So I started from scratch.

I need your help

Please, start using the site and let me know if there are any bugs.

I know there are a lot of programmers in this community, and I need your help! I'm getting pretty good with React, but I still struggle with CSS. And there's so much left to do. Please reach out if you can help.

• All the features that Factorio Blueprints already supports.
• Pagination or infinite scrolling.
• Create proper thumbnails to improve page load time and save bandwidth.
• Upvote/downvote like Reddit instead of Favorites.
• Fix little bugs.
• Your ideas and requests?