An experiment in learning NuxtJS and also in trying to document some of the stuff I do.

See the deployed site here: http://www.brianssparetime.com

Copyright reserved on all photos, videos, prose, and other non-code content included in this repository; no reproduction of such content without written consent in advance.

• support for automatically generating thumbnails for images, as part of deploy, and serving those instead of full size where it makes sense.
• added og:image support for proper thumbnails in shares
• interest pages also built using md files in separate content directory
• interest pages show only posts related to certain tags
• multiple images in a markdown post
• sidebar nav that toggles open and closed
• embedding YT videos in markdown posts
• use postcard at top of post
• make images in posts show up with correct border size and aspect ratio
• added ignore-loader to suppress webpack warnings
• limit dimensions of images in posts
• eliminated need for img folder within each post
• deploy site to netlify
• make debug work in VSCode

• [fix] investigate eliminating dirp thing again.

• [FEATURE] pagination of all posts

• [FIX, WIP] abstract post list into a vue component

  • use this on main page, all posts
  • consider adding filter / sort functionality there and using it with topic pages

• [FEATURE] set up search

  • https://nuxtjs.org/blog/creating-blog-with-nuxt-content/#add-a-search-field

• [EVENTUALLY] password protected photos section

• [EVENTUALLY] eliminate more redundant data (date, title maybe) by parsing file structure

  • https://content.nuxtjs.org/advanced#hooks

• [EVENTUALLY] considering using git submodule to contain /content or use netlify LargeMedia

  • https://docs.netlify.com/large-media/overview/
  • https://mayashavin.com/articles/git-submodule-nuxt

• [EVENTUALLY] move to configuration via build file

  • https://docs.netlify.com/configure-builds/file-based-configuration/
  • https://serverless-stack.com/chapters/create-a-netlify-build-script.html

• [EVENTUALLY] speed up deploy

  • https://serverless-stack.com/chapters/create-a-netlify-build-script.html

• also consider making the side bar more like this guy's

  • https://derkinzi.de/optimized-responsive-lazyloading-images-with-nuxt/

Download and install yarn from https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install/ or with

# install yarn
curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

# install dependencies
$ yarn install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3000
$ yarn run dev

# build for production and launch server
$ yarn run build
$ yarn start

# generate static project
$ yarn run generate

• https://github.com/regenrek/nuxt-blog-frontmatter-markdown-loader
• https://regenrek.com/posts/create-a-frontmatter-markdown-powered-blog-with-nuxt.js/
• https://github.com/regenrek/vue-sidebar-menu-example/tree/master/src
• https://regenrek.com/posts/how-to-create-an-animated-vue-sidebar-menu-with-vue-observable/
• nuxt/content#106
• https://nuxtjs.org/blog/creating-blog-with-nuxt-content/#displaying-your-content
• https://medium.com/@wearethreebears/handle-api-driven-content-links-in-nuxt-js-fe2e31ecbeeb