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My website is now on the Atmosphere! I've been building atproto apps for a while (@skyreader.app, Skyboard, SembleIt). Now my website is one too. Blog posts are @standard.site records on my PDS, rendered by a SvelteKit app. But also... 1/2 www.disnetdev.com/blog/an-atmo...

disnetdev.comAn Atmospheric WebsiteNotes from the fifth and final migration.

Sam Goto

@sgo.to

24 Apr

Can you help me understand how this works? Do you have a server listening to the firehose and building your site?

Tim Disney

@disnetdev.com

24 Apr

It's all just my data on my PDS so no need for the firehose. Just query/cache the records I care about as requests come in. Easy with SvelteKit.

Sam Goto

@sgo.to

So, wait, you have a server that reads, at runtime, the posts in your PDS and renders your website? Doesn't that require your server to be up and running all the time (as opposed to using eleventy and pushing to a cloud host provider?)?

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Tim Disney

@disnetdev.com

24 Apr

Yep. I mean, there's always a server lol. Could do static generation from PDS with a cron or webhook or something but this is actually simpler I think?

Sam Goto

@sgo.to

24 Apr

Ah, yes, probably simpler, I was just trying to avoid having to keep a (personal) server up and running to serve the website :) Thanks for the clarification!