web-refresh

Source code for the #2021DesignRefresh's supplementary software tools and marketing web frontend.

Introduction

This project has been sundowned. It is live in a frozen state since 3rd June 2021 for the foreseeable future.

Components

Discord Bot (/bot)

This Discord Bot lives in Cindy's server and allows us to grab all the posts in the #submissions channel programmatically.

Despite it being called a "bot" it does not display as online in the Discord server. It is solely used to access Discord's authenticated public API.

All files are directly invoked without arguments on the command line. It is a typical Pipenv project.

parser.py and writer.py also handling the parsing of raw Discord-retrieved content and writing of blog posts respectively.

Running the content saving script requires ffmpeg on your system and PATH.

Showcase Website (/blog)

A static website powered by the Hugo static site generator.

Build

Obviously, you need hugo. Once you have that, to run the development server, run:

hugo server

Deploy

Each push to main causes a re-build and re-deploy of the server using GitHub Actions. As of writing, each deployment takes around about 5 minutes from the push until it hits production.