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this-week-in-neovim.org official webapp repository

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hadronized/this-week-in-neovim.org
• Owner: hadronized
• License: other
• Created: 2022-07-11T14:01:36.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-03T20:59:56.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-19T18:22:39.808Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://this-week-in-neovim.org
• Size: 150 KB
• Stars: 189
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Notice: A continuation of this project now lives at https://dotfyle.com/this-week-in-neovim.\

See https://dotfyle.com/this-week-in-neovim/46#update-twin for a longer explanation.

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# This Week In Neovim

This repository holds the source code of https://this-week-in-neovim.org (this domain does not belong to this project anymore. Use at your own risk.).

* [Architecture](#architecture)

* [How does it run in production](#how-does-it-run-in-production)

* [Automatic updates every Monday](#automatic-updates-every-monday)

* [Licences](#licences)

## Architecture

The website is composed of two main pieces:

- [back](./back), the backend binary. It has different roles:

  - As a web server, it responds to requests, such as `/`, `/latest`, weekly news, RSS feeds, etc. and serves the right

    content. Served content is cached with a TTL (currently 1 day but that might change).

  - It runs in a dedicated thread a _notify_ file watcher, connected to a directory which contents is the

    [contents repository]. If a new weekly is added, it automatically

    loads it.

- [twin](./twin), the Rust library for representing weekly news, parsing, converting Markdown to HTMl, etc. etc.

## How does it run in production

1. The backend is compiled with `cargo build --release` and pushed to a remote production server.

2. On that server, a clone of this repository runs `git fetch` and `git rebase origin/master`

  (that repository _always_ stays on `master`).

3. Then, a docker image is built by running `docker build .`. See the [Dockerfile][./Dockerfile]. That process copies

   the binary into the image as long as the [server configuration](./back/config.toml), [static files](./static). A

   directory is created to be able to read from the [contents repository].

4. Once the image is built, `docker tag` is run twice: once to create the `twin:M.N.P` SemVer image, and another time to

   create `twin:latest`.

5. A docker-compose project is restarted with `twin:latest` and the webapp runs.

## Automatic updates every Monday

On every Monday, a [git script](./run/twin-refresh) is run by a [systemd unit](./run/twin-refresh.service), according to

a [timer](./run/twin-refresh.timer). That script simply `git pull --rebase` in the right host directory (which is

mounted in the docker container). For short: thanks to the notify thread and mounting the volume in the docker

container, there is no service interruption to do to release a new weekly: the only thing is to merge to `master` on the

[contents repository] before every Morning CET. The refresh date time is currently set on **Monday 9:00 AM CET**.

## Licences

The source code of the website itself (i.e. [this very repository](https://github.com/phaazon/this-week-in-neovim.org))

is licensed with the [BSD-3 New Clause](./LICENSE).

However, the actual content this is published (the “weekly news”) is licensed with CC-BY-SA-4.0. The license can be

found [here](https://github.com/phaazon/this-week-in-neovim-contents).

[contents repository]: https://github.com/phaazon/this-week-in-neovim-contents