DigJourney

Setup

The application has a few dependencies to external services. Environment variables are used to configure these services. To set them up, copy .env.example to .env and fill in the missing credentials.

Dependencies

Most of the external dependencies should be easy enough to switch out would the need arise.

Prismic (link)

The content is managed on Prismic and fetched while rendering pages.

Cloudflare (link)

To ensure fast load times the site is hosted behind Cloudflare which caches assets, images and HTML pages. The cached HTML pages are purged when changes are published to Prismic or when deploying a new version of the page.

Cloudinary (link)

Editors are encouraged to upload high resolution images to Prismic. These images are then transformed using Cloudinary before being served to the client. To keep costs down the transformations are proxied through our own server which allows us to cache the image with Cloudflare.

Development

Local development is configured by reading environment variables from the local .env file. The environment variable NODE_ENV toggles application behaviors such as minification and optimazations.

$ npm start

Setting NODE_ENV=production will enable minification and optimisations to the application bundle. A build script is used for compiling the client assets.

$ NODE_ENV=production npm run build
$ NODE_ENV=production npm start

License

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)