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. Everything is containerized via Docker containers.
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 site 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
test Flask app container. 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.
A second container manages the downloading and deletion of GitHub contribution information, which is cached temporarily instead of making GitHub API calls for every page refresh. I use pre-commit for ensuring code is formatted, linted, and conforms to REUSE specifications.