Alex Hadik's Personal Website

This repository holds the code, written content and media for my personal website. It uses Gatsby to build Markdown and React content into a static HTML site that can easily be deployed to S3.

🚀 Clone and Explore

It's pretty simple. Clone, install and run. I suppose there's a few extra steps in there.

Clone and install.

I like Yarn, but NPM works too of course.
```
git clone git@github.com:ahadik/portfolio.git
yarn install
```
Set up Firebase.

This site uses Firebase to authenticate restricted content. If you intend to use this feature, you'll need to set up a Firebase project, add Authentication, and create a user. You'll use the email address of that user in the next step.
Set up environment variables.

.env files are used to set variables for different build environments. Copy the .sample.env file and rename it to .env if you intend to use the same values for every environment, or to .env.ENV (.env.staging for example) if you want different values for different environments. I have four .env files:
- .env.development: For values needed while viewing the site on the development server.
- .env.local: For values while viewing the production built site on a local server.
- .env.staging: For values needed for a staging environment.
- .env.production: For values needed for a staging environment.
```
cp .sample.env .env
```
There are six key pieces of information you'll need to expose in your .env file(s).
- SITE_URL=<URL>: The URL for accessing the site for this environment
- FIREBASE_API_KEY=<API_KEY>: Get it from the Firebase console.
- FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=<AUTH_DOMAIN>: Get it from the Firebase console.
- FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=<DATABASE_URL>: Get it from the Firebase console.
- FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=<PROJECT_ID>: Get it from the Firebase console.
- FIREBASE_USER_EMAIL=<USER_EMAIL>: This is the email address of a user you've set up in Firebase, the password of which will be used to authenticate restricted content.
Run the Gatsby dev server.
```
gatsby develop
```
Open the source code and start editing!

Your site is now running at http://localhost:8000!

Note: You'll also see a second link: http://localhost:8000/___graphql. This is a tool you can use to experiment with querying your data. Learn more about using this tool in the Gatsby tutorial.

🧐 What's inside?

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in this project.

.
├── node_modules
├── src
|   ├── pages
|   ├── content
|   ├── components
|   ├── data
|   ├── images
|   ├── services
|   ├── templates
|   └── fragments.js
├── scripts
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc
├── gatsby-browser.js
├── gatsby-config.js
├── gatsby-node.js
├── gatsby-ssr.js
├── LICENSE
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── .sample.env
└── README.md

/node_modules: This directory contains all of the modules of code that this project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.
/src: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template. src is a convention for “source code”.
/scripts: This directory will contain scripts that help automate your work, such as creating a blank post (create-post.js) or deploying (deploy.js).
.gitignore: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.
.prettierrc: This is a configuration file for Prettier. Prettier is a tool to help keep the formatting of your code consistent.
gatsby-browser.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby browser APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting the browser.
gatsby-config.js: This is the main configuration file for a Gatsby site. This is where you can specify information about your site (metadata) like the site title and description, which Gatsby plugins you’d like to include, etc. (Check out the config docs for more detail).
gatsby-node.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby Node APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting pieces of the site build process.
gatsby-ssr.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby server-side rendering APIs (if any). These allow customization of default Gatsby settings affecting server-side rendering.
LICENSE: Gatsby is licensed under the MIT license.
package-lock.json (See package.json below, first). This is an automatically generated file based on the exact versions of your npm dependencies that were installed for this project. (You won’t change this file directly).
package.json: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for this project.
.sample.env: A sample config file. Copy and rename it to start with .env and it will automatically be ignored from Git tracking. Now you can store sensitive API keys and the like in it.
README.md: A text file containing useful reference information about this project.

🎓 Learning Gatsby (What this site is built on)

Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for Gatsby lives on the website. Here are some places to start:

For most developers, we recommend starting with our in-depth tutorial for creating a site with Gatsby. It starts with zero assumptions about your level of ability and walks through every step of the process.
To dive straight into code samples, head to our documentation. In particular, check out the Guides, API Reference, and Advanced Tutorials sections in the sidebar.

💫 Deploy

I deploy this site to S3, so I use the scripts/deploy.js script (accessible as a Yarn script with yarn deploy and yarn deploy:<ENV> — look in package.json for more info) to upload my site after it's been built.

Copy config files: aws-config.ENV.js.example is checked into source control and will have been cloned locally. Copy it for each environment: cp aws-config.ENV.js.example aws-config.staging.js for a staging environment for example. This new file is ignored in .gitignore by default if you follow these naming conventions.
Configure each aws-config file: You'll need to create the appropriate S3 buckets, an AWS access ID and secret, and fill in the corresponding info in your newly created aws-config files.
Build the site for production: yarn build:<ENV> where ENV is either (local, staging, or production). This will ensure the right URLs are used in the final build.
Deploy your built site: node scripts/deploy.js --<ENV>

✨Enjoy!!