philcryer.com

This is the code for my personal homepage, philcryer.com, re-built in 2025 with Astro, and the theme ShareYourLinks.

Build

• Install git
• Checkout the code

git clone https://github.com/philcryer/philcryer.com.git
cd philcryer

• Install nodejs and npm
• Install required nodejs components for the project

npm install

• Run dev site, which will automatically rebuild when it senses any file changes

npm run dev

• View the site in your browser, by default it will appear at http://localhost:4321, any changes to the source files will be reloaded automatically in your browser

Note

To use this project for yourself, edit the content of src/data/userData.js with your details, and source icons from Iconify Design

• Build the site

npm run build

• The files are output to the dist/ directory, which you can then deploy to a webserver, see the Makefile for a deploy example

Makefile

The included Makefile handles a lot of the npm tasks, including building and deploying to my server. You'll need to change those steps for your environment, but the other ones are helpful.

• Install make
• Run make without any arguments to see all of its abilities

make
  - install: install required nodejs components for the project
  - dev: run the astro dev server, viewable in a browser, featuring live reload on file changes
  - build: build the astro project to the dist/ directory
  - build-debug: build the astro project with the debug flag on
  - build-deploy: build the astro project and deploy the contents of dist/ to your server
  - deploy: deploy the contents of dist/ to your server

TODO

• Build a footer with the date, a link to this github page, and a short build hash linked to the commit npm used to build; reproducible builds FTW!

git rev-parse --short HEAD

• Add a terms/conditions page
• Add a privacy policy page

License

MIT License

Thanks