Schedule
The event will be run in a self-directed learning style. Turn up and expect to code. We want everyone to finish the day having built a personal website. Mentors and peer support will be available throughout.
The rough schedule is:
- 09:30 - Doors open
- Get connected to Wifi, settle in
- Install Astro, publish a "Hello World" site (try Vercel or Netlify for hosting!), Pull Request a link to your site on this site (below!)
- Get coding on the challenges
- 12:30 - Lunch (Union of Genius soup, sponsored by Gigged.ai)
- 15:00 - Wrap up coding, finishing touches
- 16:00 - Showcase
- 17:00 - Close
Challenges
The first challenge is to deploy and Astro template with your name and a "hello world" message, then to submit a PR to this repository to list your work.
Try hosting with Vercel or Netlify
Then try:
- Add pictures using the inbuilt Astro image components
- Add tailwind to help your style your site
- Add a content collection for a dev-blog, project list or month notes (or all of these!). Why not write a post about how you are setting up this site?
- Add an RSS feed for your blog
- Pull in a list of your pinned repos or starred repos from Github
- Add a Now page
- Add links to your Github, LinkedIn, 𝕏 using Astro icons
- Add interactive React components
- Implement dark mode
- Write some JS inspired by the graphics or sounds talks at recent EdinburghJS events
- Create blog excerpts
- Displaying your top songs using the Spotify API
- Create page transitions using the Shared Element Transition API
- Filter out draft pages on your blog
- Add celebration confetti to a page
Sponsors and thanks
Thank you to Gigged.ai for sponsoring lunch for all our participants, and to CodeBase for providing refreshments and the venue.
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Useful Links
- Astro.build - Astro homepage
- Astro VS Code Extension
- Awesome Astro
- Astro Recipies