This is the server application that drives my website. It contains very little of the site content, which can be found in my website-content repository; this is limited strictly to the application logic necessary to translate the content collection into HTTP responses.
It is an Elixir/Phoenix web application with some custom YAML/Markdown processing logic and other decorations.
git clone https://github.com/myrrlyn/home.git
cd home
mix do deps.get, deps.compile, compile
cd assets
npm install
cd ..
mix phx.serverThis renders markdown documents with a YAML frontmatter and support for inline attribute lists, with some additional behaviors.
The {:tag="html tag"} attribute replaces the HTML tag that Markdown chose to
parse (currently supported: blockquote, code, and p) with whatever tag is
desired. I use this to supply figure, figcaption, cite, and aside
elements.
The frontmatter supports tab titles, page titles, and page subtitles, as well as other metadata such as publishing date, resource embeds, and content tags. These are used to fill in portions of the page framework, and to inject foreign libraries like MathJax.
Pages can choose their banner image by setting the banner: or album: key in
the frontmatter. These must correspond to objects in assets/banners.toml. When
banner: is set, only that banner will be served on the page; when album: is
set, an image will be randomly selected from the named collection.
The library I was using to manage content cache headers such as ETag and Last-Modified is not maintained and no longer works with modern Phoenix. As such, I currently do not emit cache-control headers or serve opportunistic 304 responses for the main content of a page.
I am working on it.
The page layout is supposed to be responsive to mobile devices, and I test it on both my laptop and my phone. If you have complaints about the CSS, please let me know and I’ll try to address them. I am decent, though unimaginative, at CSS, and am always open to feedback and improvement.
- Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
- Guides: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
- Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
- Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/phoenix-forum
- Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix