Hello

This is Jekyll site built on top of the jekyll-uno theme, with a few static pages, a blog, and a React image gallery. The app pulls content from my Instagram and uses the excellent react-images to view the images.

This is definitely not an example of how to build a maintainable site. The code is not pretty: it's experimental, and cobbled together using a number of langauges, frameworks, scripts, and several hacks.

Build

There's a two stage build process: webpack transpiles and bundles the Javascript under /react and puts the bundle in /src/js, then Jekyll builds everything under /src and dumps the static site in /build. "Deploying" is a simple matter of pushing the contents of /build to the master branch.

Local set up

bundle install to install the Ruby gems.

npm install followed by npm start to start the jekyll server. The site will be available at localhost:4000.

Updating the Instagram gallery

This is a manual process at the moment (until the site is migrated off GitHub Pages) that can be triggered by running:

npm run scrape

This calls a PHP script that uses instagram-php-scraper to pull the data from instagram, and writes the necessary properties to a JSON file at src/_data/instadump.json.

Pushing changes to the live site

From the source branch, first build the production version using:

npm run build-prod

The site will be built to .site. Then run:

npm run deploy

to perform all the git-juggling and push to master.