Project site: OneBillionSeconds.io
Goal: Create a website to show how long ago was one billion seconds
- 2021/12/12
- Bought domain name onebillionseconds.io
- 2021/12/15
- Created repo
- Decided to use eleventy framework as static site generator
- Made hello world
- Create AWS account for hosting
- 2021/12/18
- Made barebones webpack config
- Compiled luxo.js as datetime lib
- Ceate minimal website that shows when one billion ago is (#1)
- Setup aws account with amplify for static site hosting
- Setup github hooks for automated builds
- Trouleshooted a bunch. Turned out that company VPN has newer versions of NPM packages that are not available in the normal registry.
- Fixed it by not including
package-lock.json(#2) in repo and generating during build.
- Setup PR prevview builds, very cool!
- 2021/12/19
- Troubleshoot custom domain setup. Not luck!
- Also bough onebillionseconds.co to see if the problem was with other domain name provider. Still doesn't work.
- Troubleshoot custom domain setup. Not luck!
- 2021/12/23
- Setup repo to transpile react. I used a guide that was bringing in way too much stuff. Will pair it down later on. Didn't actually write any react components.
- 2022/01/01
- Slowed down by OS updated today.
- Fix issues with
packages-json.lock#3 - Troubleshot custom domain issues again, and found solution!
- I needed to setup a Route 53 hosted zon for the domain first! This was never mentioned in the amplify docs.
- 2022/01/02
- Research CSS frameworks to make website a bit more polished. Decided on bulma.
- Read a little on how to use it and tinkered with a few layouts #4
- Research CSS frameworks to make website a bit more polished. Decided on bulma.
- 2022/02/04
- I decided against using react, but then backtracked.
- Add react webpack config, and implemented react componenets to make date widgets live #5
- 2022/02/06
- Add more date widgets, and basically wrap up the design!
- Asked friends for help with the jokes.
- Add google analytics to see the 2 people that will use the website!
- It's live!
- 2022/02/08
- Write development journal!