Radio-Canada Mini
🚧 Work in progress 🚧
This is an attempt at making a French version of the CBC Lite website: cbc.ca/lite
Fetching data from the Radio-Canada API at build time, Eleventy creates pages for every news stories on the main Radio-Canada.ca sections.
MVP Roadmap
- Establish minimal list of lineups to fetch data from ✅
- Hosted on Github, deployed and served by Vercel ✅
- Return 10 news stories from the main lineups ✅
- Minimalist, unintrusive design ✅
- Trigger build with cron, calling the build hook from Vercel ✅
To do
- Page template - one page for each news story
- Deploy on Netlify: https://radio-canada-lite.netlify.app
- List main lineups
- Each lineup generate a page
- Build site to refresh the data every 30 min: webhook from Vercel is called every 30 min with cron - idea is from Dana Byerly - see this article for details
- Indicate last build time LAST BUILD: {{ buildtime.timestamp | dateToISO }} from Whimsical
- Dark mode / light more, with auto switch and button
- Ignore longforms and atypical documents that are sometimes included in lineups mozilla/nunjucks#676
- Generate a list of every pages/lineups (sitemap)
- Integrate images that are returned by the endpoints: load only if users click
- /about page to explain project: rc-lite.xyz/a-propos
- Correctly format dates to human readable https://11ty.rocks/eleventyjs/dates/
- Fetch two pages to deliver more articles