Homepage for Portland Code & Coffee.

This site is primarily plain HTML and CSS. It uses nginx SSI for some light templating, and there is a live reload dev server that is currently enabled by default. The live reload server uses Server Side Events (SSE) over HTTP 2.0 to send connected clients a reload message. There is also a heartbeat sent every 30 seconds to maintain the connection.

There are two ways to run the live reload server. Installing the pre-push git hook with ./scripts/install-git-hooks.sh will trigger a deploy of the changes to the live server when a push is made. This ensures the git repo will be in sync with the server, which is nice. Make sure to set the PROD environment variable to trigger a deploy to the production server.

The other way is to run the watch.sh script (with $PROD set), which uses entr (although any other file watching utility would work) to run the deploy.sh script when files relevant to the site are modified. This is based on a checksum of the file and uses rsync to send a minimal amount of data to the server. If $PROD is not set, it will just trigger the local instnce of the coming up server (https://github.com/harrisi/comingup_events).

The current server is hosted on a $4 VPS in a San Franciscan datacenter. There is a provisioning script in the cloud-init format for ease of deployment. Some aspects of the deployment may be missing from the cloud-init configuration, but there should be enough information to relatively easily recreate the instance.

Pull requests are welcome!