Static site generator for alvarcarto.com

This generator transforms our WordPress site to a static version.

Usage

• Run the latest version of WordPress locally or in e.g. AWS. Let's assume you have it running at http://localhost:3000.

• Run node . http://localhost:3000

  You can also test this generator by pointing it to node . https://alvarcarto.com. Beware that CloudFlare may have some scraping protections in place.

• cd ../alvarcarto.com

• Commit changes and push to Github

• Verify that QA site looks OK (auto-deployment enabled)

• Deploy to production and lock the deployment

Production generation

The currently working command is below. Link checker is broken: stevenvachon/broken-link-checker#76.

node . --no-check-broken-links -o ../alvarcarto.com https://alvarcarto-wordpress.herokuapp.com

Local generation

1. Start alvarcarto-site with docker-compose up

2. Run generator

   node . --no-check-broken-links -o ../alvarcarto.com http://localhost:8080
   

Install

• npm install

• cd .. && git clone git@github.com:kimmobrunfeldt/alvarcarto.com.git

  Clone alvarcarto.com repository aside this repository. You should have e.g. code/alvarcarto-site-generator and code/alvarcarto.com repo directories.

  The generator will spit the files to ../alvarcarto.com by default.

How it works

1. Scrape the WordPress site withnode-website-scraper.

   The scraper should make almost 1-to-1 copy of the site. Directory structure and everything should match.

2. Download manual urls

   Not all files are reachable via normal site links and scraping, so we have a whitelist of urls to manually download. For example sitemap files.

3. Copy everything from files/* on top of that

This is useful for e.g. Netlify-specific files or any possible manual overrides.

Notes

Some broken links are normal. They are configured in top-level site hosting instead of WP level.

BROKEN https://alvarcarto-wordpress.herokuapp.com/phone-background/ -> generator/
BROKEN https://alvarcarto-wordpress.herokuapp.com/phone-background/ -> generator/