For a long time, my blog has been hosted at https://steebe.github.io as a simple Jekyll repository that only required *.md updates. It's about damn time I buckled down and did the heavy lifting.
The gist of this project is to preserve the ease of blog post publishing to a personal domain and remove the dependency on existing static site generators like Jekyll or Hugo or Gatsby. Ergo, there were a few requirements up front:
- Blog posts themselves must be markdown files, for human readability and extensibility
- The entire solution must be self-developed (to a reasonable extent; I am allowing myself the liberty of leveraging
npmpackages for front-end tasks that would be a bear to recreate) - The entire solution must be full-stack
- Host blog post *.md files in S3
- Establish a Node.js server application, atop a PostgreSQL database to serve a new personal website
- Establish a React client application to act as the new site's front-end