SamuelWillis

Personal website built with the Phoenix Framework

Getting Started

You'll need to have the following things running to work on this codebase:

1. direnv
2. asdf (or Elixir, Erlang, and Node.js)
3. Postgres

Assuming the above are installed and running correctly

• Copy .envrc.sample to .envrc and fill out with your configuration
• Run mix setup to install and setup dependencies
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser and see this wonderful website.

Deployments

This site is hosted on Fly.io for super simple deployments.

Deployments happen via GitHub Actions and anything pushed/merged to main is deployed to production.

Features

This is a small website and only does a couple things.

Articles

Nimble Publisher is used for blog posts/articles.

It's super simple to use and all articles are Markdown files stored in this Repo.

You can see them at priv/articles.

Metrics

This website gathers metrics. The driving factors for the Metrics system are/were:

1. To see what pages are being looked at
2. Have a small Ecto based project to get done
3. Not give people's data to the big nastys
4. Not spend money on Metric gather

With the above I decided to implement a small metrics gathering system that saves some basic information into a database.

The information gathered is:

1. The date
2. The path
3. The number of visits

This lets me see the total number of visits to a page on a given day.

No PII or anything like that and super simple. It's mainly used to power the small page_views counter at the bottom right hand of the website's pages. Pretty neat huh?

Metrics are tracked via a Plug on static pages and a Hook on LiveView pages.