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Title: Making this site.

Published: May 30, 2024

how was this site made?

This website has been made using sveltekit (previously Node & Express.js) & Cloudflare pages for posting (previously NameCheap). This changed halfway through development from using Node.js with Express.js. This was mainly due to sveltekit’s reusable components -> not having to write so much for routing requests & components like headers.

Inspiration

The colourscheme was inspired by the gruvbox theme for vim I like this theme very much as it is very easy on the eyes and I use it for almost everything - including the terminal (terminator is the best). For the font I also use one of my personal favorites Fira Code. I love this font just because it looks the best & has ligatures which are very cool, just look at this: -> <---> != <= >= === =====>.

hosting

I originally used a VPS on Namecheap, and this worked very well for Node & Express.js. However, when I tried to run Svelte, it would not work due to the fact that the versions of NPM & Node were at least 4 versions behind the current ones - which meant I couldn’t actually run svelte on the VPS. So I had to find an alternative that wasn’t going to cost me more than Namecheap. This was when I found out about Github Pages & Cloudflare, which can host the site for free (much better than Namecheap could). Github pages could also host sveletekit which was perfect. Since then its been nothing but easy setupfo & management (even linking to my own domain) - all you have to do is link the page with the git repository and updates are very easy. Although I do personally like having my own server as it teaches you lots and gives you full control to do most things (obviously hosting it yourself would be the best option but I have nowhere near that level of hardware available & cannot afford the electricity costs). Cloudflare pages was very easy to set-up & I will definitely be hosting any other projects on Pages (github or cloudflare) just because it’s so easy.

Programming the website

This project started using Node.js & Express.js - this was because I had some previous experience building a few simple applications for my A-level project using Node & Express.js.