Website Setup

Wanted a website to publish stuff and experiment.

Goals:

• Simple
• Javascript focused
• Can experiment with multiple technologies and frameworks
• Something I can grow
• Develop almost anywhere, including iPad

Landed on:

• DigitalOcean - Development environment and maybe for running experiments.
• Eleventy - Static site generator that sounded cool.
• Netifly - Static site web host.

Initial Setup #

1. Created a DigitalOcean account and created a Node.js Quick Start Droplet.
2. Configured my iPad to work with the Droplet. I use Code Editor and Prompt by Panic.
3. Messed around with Eleventy tutorials.
4. Started with Eleventy Base Blog and the Netifly builder for it.
5. Cloned my new github repository of the base blog.
6. Setup Netifly to handle DNS of the domain name I bought last month.

Site Development #

• Edit all files through SFTP connection through Code Editor
• Use the Code Editor terminal to run the serve command, which runs Eleventy on any saved changes and serves a test version of the site.

npx @11ty/eleventy --serve

• Publish using git push

git push origin master

Notes #

• Save github password:

git config --global credential.helper cache

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