dustindowell.com

This project is hosted here https://dustindowell.com/

Todo

Store and retreive resume.json to/from session storage

Build and Develop

Notable make targets. See the Makefile for a full list.

$ make       # build for production
$ make start # start the development server
$ make clean # delete /node_modules, /public, /tmp, and package-lock.json

Notes

Why make?

Make was chosen as the "task runner" for this project. Make has been around for a long time. It's simple, fast, well-tested, well-documented, and supports multi-line commands. You can install it on Debian along with other tools like this.

$ sudo apt install build-essential

State Management

The state manager in this project is an extremely simple take on flux architecture, similar to Redux, Vuex, Hyperapp, and others.

In this project you dispatch actions to update state.

// declare an action
const increment = (state, dispatch) => data => {
  state.counter += data
  return state
}

// dispatch an action with some data
dispatch(increment, 12)

View Layer Syntax

This project uses Superfine for the view layer. Superfine is a minimal view layer that uses a virtual dom to patch the real dom.

The view layer syntax in this project is a modified version of Superfine's. In this project children must be contained inside an array. This was was traded for optional prop objects.

// Valid syntax
div()
div([/* nodes */])
div({ /* props */ })
div({ /* props */ }, [/* nodes */])

// Deprecated syntax
div(/* node */)
div({ /* props */ }, /* node */)

Best practice for using font-weight

Due to the limited amount of font weights in CSS, I follow this convention when adding fonts.

https://www.webtype.com/info/articles/fonts-weights/

100 - Extra Light or Ultra Light
200 - Light or Thin
300 - Book or Demi
400 - Normal or Regular
500 - Medium
600 - Semibold, Demibold
700 - Bold
800 - Black, Extra Bold or Heavy
900 - Extra Black, Fat, Poster or Ultra Black

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