Re-do free.law G̶a̶t̶s̶b̶y̶ NextJS

[mlissner]

I've been investigating this for several months at this point and I think it's generally a good transition to make:

1. Pelican is not getting much usage any more and basic bugs are not getting fixed (for example, the cache feature is totally broken and nobody noticed except for me).
2. Gatsby has a ridiculously broad set of plugins that makes it really fast and powerful. Some of the starters are very good.
3. The new design in Do a new homepage for Free Law Project #39 needs a new home and I'm not at all interested in doing it in Pelican
4. Free.law is a useful playground to learn and experiment with new technologies. We're moving towards react a bit and considering using tailwindcss. Both are used in gatsby.
5. Nobody aside from me and poor, poor @flooie have successfully gotten pelican installed and working locally.

OTOH, I've been working on this here and there for several months, and I must confess that I've had a real difficult time getting traction on this, but I think with a good block of time I can make it happen.

I'm going to use a MoSCoW analysis to work on a partial feature list so we can decide when it's ready.

MUST

• Have extremely good performance
• Have all the old blog posts
• Use old URLs or redirect them
• Have custom 404 page
• Support the new homepage in Do a new homepage for Free Law Project #39
• Have a favicon
• Use Sitemap.xml files The linking is so good, I don't think it's needed.
• Support old links and downloads from Pelican format
• Do something with old Bootstrap HTML in markdown files
• Use the free.law domain
• Support HTTPS

SHOULD

• Be editable by somewhat lay people
• Send stats to Piwik
• Support syntax highlighting in code blocks #46

COULD

• Support edits via some Netlify form or something
• Have a search engine #50
• Have a contact form
• Have a dark theme

WON'T

• Use CSP headers

[litewarp]

Use NextJs instead of Gatsby. Less complicated, doesn't force you into GraphQL and with the SSR and SSG capabilities, there's no real advantage to gatsby anymore.

[mlissner]

SSR

Selective serotonin reuptake?

[mlissner]

More todos:

• Search for btn and similar bootstrap styles and re-do them
• Search for captioned images and redo them
• Find any remaining {filename} or other pelican syntax
• Implement next-seo
• Write project pages; move and update old ones
• Add links to /projects/courtlistener.md
• Do the tag pages
• Add matomo.courtlistener.com (site ID 2)
• Check for markdown tables of contents?
• Get prettier working, configured, and run it
• Update the readme
• Figure out the <title> tag everywhere.
• Review lighthouse score and fix

Old RSS feeds were at:

FEED_ALL_ATOM = 'feeds/all.atom.xml'
CATEGORY_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/{slug}.atom.xml'
TAG_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/tag/{slug}'
AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = "feeds/{slug}.atom.xml"

The twitter open graph image is:

OPEN_GRAPH_IMAGE = 'android-chrome-192x192.png'

[mlissner]

It's launched.

[mlissner]

Post launch:

• Check matomo
• Sentry?
• Remove AWS CDN, Lambda, S3