curiouslychase.com

Site Architecture

My site is built with NextJS (with strict TypeScript enabled). It's deployed and served with Vercel.

Libraries

I use a variety of JavaScript libraries and frameworks:

• NextJS for Server-Side Rendering
• NextJS is a framework built on top of React
• Stitches (styling) - styling and design system
• MDX, Remark and Rehype for my Markdown rendered content

Fonts

• Sans Serif: Archivo
• Mono: Jet Brains Mono

Content

All of the content files are written in Obsidian flavored Markdown. They're copied from the Obsidian vault directory on my local machine into my content directory with a custom script. The script can run ad hoc but it's also run as a git pre-commit hook using Husky (JavaScript).

The content is stored in version control simply to reduce storing and fetching it from somewhere else.

• All notes except posts are copied into content/notes/<DIRECTORY PATH>/<FILENAME> and served as /notes/<SLUGIFIED FILENAME>/
• All posts are copied into content/posts/<FILENAME> and served as /posts/<SLUGIFIED FILENAME>/

When the site builds, the paths are flattened out.

As an example, the file for the content you're currently reading lives in the vault path 40 - Projects/curiouslychase.com. When the content is served, it will be served at notes/curiouslychase.com.

Serving content at the notes root makes the URL path durable. I can move it into a different directory and the URL path will persist at the same location it did before.

Scripts

I use a few scripts to stitch everything together:

• A script to copy my Obsidian files with status: published into my git repo's content directory
• A script to generate my RSS feed from the files in my content directory
• A script to fetch content from Dropbox ([DEPRECATED in preference of the script above])

notes.curiouslychase.com

I was originally using Obsidian Publish and serving the site Using Fly.io and NGINX for Proxying Obsidian Publish but found the solution wasn't meeting my needs.

For durability purposes, I created a Netlify site that uses _redirects to redirect my paths from notes.curiouslychase.com to curiouslychase.com/notes.

Overview

This is an Obsidian Dataview section that allows me to keep tabs on what's published and if it's missing metadata.

dv.table(["Note", "Description"], dv.pages().filter((p) => p.status === "published" && !p.description).map(p => [p.file.link, p.description]))

dv.list(dv.pages().filter((p) => p.status === "published" && !p.description).map(p => p.file.link))

changelog

• 2022-10-05 - added "notes" to the homepage