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.
Most of the external dependencies should be easy enough to switch out would the need arise.
Now (link)
Hosting on now is effiencent, cheap and fast. Very little code is actually dependant on now. Only in a couple of places is the now environment detected when configuring the application.
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.
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 startSetting 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