briananders.com

My personal site

Installation steps

1. Install XCode command line tools: xcode-select --install
2. Install homebrew. (see: brew.sh)
3. Install homebrew dependencies: brew bundle
4. Install node: nvm install
5. Set node version: nvm use

Build the static site

To build and launch the dev site at localhost:3000: npm start

(Stop the server with Ctrl+C.)

To build the site for production, compress and gzip files: npm run build

To build the site for golden (skips gzip compression and asset hashing): npm run build:golden

The site is built into the /package folder (production) or /golden folder (golden build).

Deploy the static site

My website uses AWS as the host, and the deploy uses aws-cli. For this to work you need credentials saved as bash variables. CLOUDFRONT_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY, and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY. The deploy library uses these credentials for authentication.

DO NOT SHARE YOUR CREDENTIALS WITH ANYONE.

DO NOT COMMIT THEM TO A PUBLIC REPO.

To deploy to staging: npm run stage

To deploy to production: npm run deploy