Code and infrastructure for https://tektkrik.dev
The website backend is implemented in Python using Flask, using a mixture of static pages and
templates rendered using the Jinja engine. Static files like images and CSS are found within
the Flask app, but additional files used by templates such as JSON files can be found in the
assets/ folder.
NGINX is used as a reverse proxy web server to serve content to clients. NGINX is also set up to serve the static assets more efficiently. Gunicorn is used as the WSGI HTTP server that actually runs the Flask code. Supervisor and systemd are used to startup the server on bootup, as well as restart it if needed. All of this runs on a shared Linode Compute instance.
The UI is implemented using Bootstrap, which has plenty of available components to use. It also allows customization of the design from mobile to desktop.
This repository uses GitHub Actions to for it's CI/CD pipeline. Any pull requests into main
trigger spinning up the test subdomain https://test.tekktrik.dev, which will run the associated
Flask app. Closing the pull request (through merging or otherwise) will turn off the supervisor
task running the testing subdomain. Pushes and merges into main cause the CI to update the
Flask app running the main site with the new additions.
The server has a cronjob that updates the server by saving the results of a GraphQL query to GitHub
to download information about contributions every hour (as well as delete outdated information).
This process uses a tool I created called cronberry, which
manages updating the crontab during updates to main. I use pre-commit for ensuring code is
formatted, linted, and conforms to REUSE specifications.