You can use Bicep and GitHub Actions to build and deploy to a static website on Azure Static Web Apps. This post demonstrates how.
Docusaurus blogs: using the createFeedItems API with git commit date
A new API landed in Docusaurus 2.3.0 - it's called createFeedItems
. It's a great API that allows you to tweak the Atom / RSS / JSON feeds for your blog. This post shows how to use it with the git commit date.
Image Optimisation with the TinyPNG API
Image optimisation can be automated with the TinyPNG API. This post demonstrates how to do that.
Docusaurus: improving Core Web Vitals with fetchpriority
By using fetchpriority
on your Largest Contentful Paint you can improve your Core Web Vitals. This post implements that with Docusaurus.
How I ruined my SEO
In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened? Somehow I ruined my SEO. Don't be me. I'll tell you what I got up to and hopefully you can avoid doing the same.
Azure Pipelines - Node.js 16 and custom pipelines task extensions
Support for Node.js 16 for Azure Pipelines custom pipelines task extensions has arrived. From a TypeScript perspective, this post documents how to migrate from a Node.js 10 custom task to one that runs on Node 16 using azure-pipelines-task-lib
.
Using Application Insights with Bicep to monitor Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Functions
Application Insights are a great way to monitor Azure Static Web Apps and Azure Functions. But how do you deploy that using Bicep? Let's find out!
Serving Docusaurus images with Cloudinary
Cloudinary offers an image CDN which can improve performance of your site. This post details how to get Docusaurus to use Cloudinary to serve optimised images.
Azure Static Web Apps: dynamic redirects with Azure Functions
Azure Static Web Apps can perform URL redirects using the routes
section in the staticwebapp.config.json
. However it is limited. This post will demonstrate dynamic URL redirects with Azure Functions.
Azure Static Web Apps: build app externally
Azure Static Web Apps can generally build themselves with Oryx. If you need finer grained control of your build, you can with skip_app_build: true
and some GitHub Actions.
Publishing Docusaurus to dev.to with the dev.to API
The dev.to API provides a way to cross post your Docusaurus blogs to dev.to. This post describes how to do that with TypeScript, Node.js and the dev.to API.
Deep linking with Azure Static Web Apps and Easy Auth
Azure Static Web Apps doesn't support deep linking with authentication. The post login redirect parameter of post_login_redirect_uri
does not support query string parameters. This post describes how to work around this limitation.
Docusaurus: Using fontaine to reduce custom font cumulative layout shift
Custom font usage can introduce cumulative layout shift (or "jank") to your website. This post shows how to use fontaine to reduce this with Docusaurus sites.
Adding lastmod to sitemap based on git commits
This post demonstrates enriching an XML sitemap with lastmod
timestamps based on git commits.
XML: read and write with Node.js
This post demonstrates reading and writing XML in Node.js using fast-xml-parser
. We'll use the Docusauruses XML sitemap as an example.
Azure AD Claims with Static Web Apps and Azure Functions
Authorization in Azure Functions is impaired by an issue with Azure Static Web Apps linked to Azure Functions. Azure AD app role claims are not supplied to Azure Functions. This post will demonstrate a workaround.
Debugging Azure Functions in VS Code on Mac OS
VS Code's debugging mechanism for Azure Functions on Mac OS frequently breaks. This post documents an approach to get it working.
Getting started with the Web Monetization API
The Web Monetization API is a JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website. This post walks through getting started adding it to a site.
Bicep: Static Web Apps and Linked Backends
Azure Static Web Apps can be linked to Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps etc to provide the linked backend for a site. This post will demonstrate how to do this with Bicep.