Rewrite using Astro, TailwindCSS and DaisyUI

[jacobwhall]

This is a full rewrite of the site. It builds a lot faster, and the codebase is much smaller.

Highlights:

• Homepage has a map in the background!
• Events are auto-populated from Google Calendar at build time
• Astro makes building the site, both in development and prod, much easier
• New /in-the-news/ page shows all of our shout-outs in news articles
• Initial work on Sveltia CMS integration will allow us to edit site content in a more user-friendly way

You can see how the site looks here: https://jacobwhall.github.io/maprva.org/

All feedback is welcome. I hope this is a positive step forward for the MapRVA website, and I think it'll make it easier to add more features and content in the future.

[jacobwhall]

I requested reviews from all MapRVA members who have contributed to the repository thus far.

[kfinity]

I love it - I think it looks great. I haven't tried building it locally yet. I tested most of the pages and they seem solid. The only feedback I can think of is super minor:

• that great background map on the homepage is a little slow to load on mobile, compared to the rest of the page. Idk if it's a static image that's easy to scale down or something.

• maybe we should switch the embedded ultra maps on the individual project pages to use the MapRVA overpass server, they're giving me "failed to fetch" errors 🥲

[jacobwhall]

Thanks, @kfinity!

that great background map on the homepage is a little slow to load on mobile

Yeah, right now its an entire MapLibre embed. Which I admit is a bit silly. I am open to making that a static image asset instead.

maybe we should switch the embedded ultra maps on the individual project pages to use the MapRVA overpass server, they're giving me "failed to fetch" errors

@dschep can confirm this but I think it's just a quirk of Ultra's CORS restrictions. I've had similar issues in the past in development environments. I expect that these embeds will work as expected once deployed to maprva.org

[mhpob]

Looks great to me -- any changes I'd request have already been addressed.

Echo Kevin's suggestion re: map background.

[jacobwhall]

I admit it's fun to have a high-res background map in widescreen...but I won't die on this hill.

[dschep]

yeah, ultra queries just don't seem to be hosted where they're expected. But.. I do agree with the idea of just having a separate repo for queries. I'll see if I can whip that up

[dschep]

https://maprva.github.io/ultra-maps/

[jacobwhall]

ultra queries just don't seem to be hosted where they're expected

These should be hosted in a backwards-compatible way, e.g. /ultra-maps/surveillance.ultra. I also tested /img/surveillance-direction.png

https://maprva.github.io/ultra-maps/

Even better!