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#1943Fix#2837Fix#2616
In #2698 we decided to put legacy helper functions in `core/legacy`. I think that’s a fine idea, though if we’re going to have a bunch of badge helper functions in there, it seems like it is probably better to keep these two important but esoteric helper functions with the core code to which they are most coupled. So I added `legacy-` to the name, and put them in `core/base-service`.
* move gh-badges files out of /lib
As far as possible, this is just moving files
around and updating paths however there are 2
functional changes in this commit:
- remove use of lib/register-chai-plugins.spec
in badge-cli.spec.js
- remove use of starRating()
in text-measurer.spec.js
* update service tests that use colorscheme.json
* split package.json in two
* clean up import
* don't hard-code path
* start a changelog
* put a license file in the package dir
* re-organise documentation 📚
* don't pack test files
* remove favicon from Makefile
* give package its own test command
* link the docs better in README
