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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ville Skyttä
0d4a74bd6b Spelling fixes (#3013) 2019-02-17 14:10:06 -05:00
Paul Melnikow
90f8ad5b73 Endpoint customizer (#2908)
* Endpoint page: improve formatting

Cherry-picked from #2906 (conflicts with that)

Partly addresses #2837 but does not resolve it

* Add badge customizer to the endpoint page

* Clean lint
2019-02-14 19:08:56 -06:00
Paul Melnikow
d8ce045ead Adopt Gatsby (#2906)
While Next.js can handle static sites, we've had a few issues with it, notably a performance hit at runtime and some bugginess around routing and SSR. Gatsby being fully intended for high-performance static sites makes it a great technical fit for the Shields frontend. The `createPages()` API should be a really nice way to add a page for each service family, for example.

This migrates the frontend from Next.js to Gatsby. Gatsby is a powerful tool, which has a bit of downside as there's a lot to dig through. Overall I found configuration easier than Next.js. There are a lot of plugins and for the most part they worked out of the box. The documentation is good.

Links are cleaner now: there is no #. This will break old links though perhaps we could add some redirection to help with that. The only one I’m really concerned about `/#/endpoint`. I’m not sure if folks are deep-linking to the category pages.

There are a lot of enhancements we could add, in order to speed up the site even more. In particular we could think about inlining the SVGs rather than making separate requests for each one.

While Gatsby recommends GraphQL, it's not required. To keep things simple and reduce the learning curve, I did not use it here.

Close #1943 
Fix #2837 Fix #2616
2019-02-06 16:37:55 -05:00