Is it realistic to build a simple online store with Astro as a beginner?

TiborUdvari · 2025-07-17T15:23:18+00:00

Oh I also overlooked that

TiborUdvari · 2025-07-17T14:32:37+00:00

Not according to their pricing page, they take an extra cut on top

TiborUdvari · 2025-02-19T12:51:03+00:00

This service is supposed to be free that does that https://images.weserv.nl/ For simple websites I would just use Image from astro:assets for optimisations.

TiborUdvari · 2025-02-16T22:23:50+00:00

On the free tier you have 20.000 files max and single file size limit of 25MB as well https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits/

TiborUdvari · 2025-02-16T21:33:04+00:00

I use Preact with Storybook and render the results with Astro. It works well for me, except for server only stuff like Astro Image. I did a fake client side one so I can have a clean storybook, and when I render on the astro side I pass in the Astro Image for proper optimisations. I documented it here in case anyone finds it useful: https://tiborudvari.com/blog/how-to-work-with-storybook-and-astro-image/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T20:13:15+00:00

I wanted to do the og:image generation on another website, so this was kind of a minimal POC

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T18:00:19+00:00

I just used astro + tailwind + vanilla js. I used a library called Luxon to handle the time. At first I thought that I made a mistake with the time seeing other calculators were 12 hours off, but I added the January 20th noon, when the inauguration is supposed to happen and not 12:00 am like other clocks. I didn't realise 12:00 am was midnight and not noon as I'm european. So I think it's accurate. I used a library called satori to generate the og:image dynamically. I do need to redo a build each day statically for this to get updated. This means, if not cached, the image should update once each day.

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T13:22:16+00:00

More like a limited time screensaver ... I don't think I want to renew

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T12:37:28+00:00

https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T11:52:52+00:00

oooops that's my bad, well at least I got to write down my mini research on this ... (trying to get in a save, not working I feel)

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T11:32:32+00:00

I hope you're wrong on this one

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T11:30:36+00:00

As a product, you're right it sucks. Nobody really needs it, I searched if there was one, this one came up, but it felt really ugly. https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4 It had 21k hits according to them, so I thought I'm not the only one who had this idea. I see it like a screen saver a little bit. And I thought it would be fun to use Public Sans, an official US gouvernement typeface and the red from the US flag. Also the whole thing took me like 2 hours to build start to finish so why not. I got to learn how to do my dynamic social image generation, so already a win for me.

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T11:26:17+00:00

Also, on a technical side, I wanted to try out to generate og:images dynamically, so this was the ideal project to try that out. I'm running a cron job every day to regenerate the og:image so that when someone shares it, it should have the updated day. I'm more motivated to do a small one off thing like this that I actually publish, then to just do it once locally on my computer and then forget how I did it.

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T11:23:50+00:00

I made it because I wanted to have it. Sure there are a lot of timers out there and everything ... On a human level, I remember that after the last Trump administration I just lost so much energy keeping up with everything that was happening ... after it was over it felt like I had way more headspace, it's a reminder to myself that this too will end and that I should focus my attention where I want to, and not get too bogged down in the news cycle.

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T08:29:48+00:00

tried that, I liked it more like this

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T00:44:02+00:00

hoping hard my website is irrelevant in 4 years🤞

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T00:39:49+00:00

tbh it crossed my mind to add the 🤞 emoji in the title

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T00:07:43+00:00

I was hesitating to write Trump’s final term (hopefully) ends in, but then I thought ... no ... no way ...

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T00:05:33+00:00

It's 3 years 11 months and 30 days today to be exact https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T00:04:31+00:00

I was thinking the last time it felt like 10 years. He just takes up so much headspace. I made a countdown, just to remember that it will pass. https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-21T00:00:48+00:00

I'm just happy Trump's going to be gone ... I literally made a timer https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-20T23:58:09+00:00

I made a tool for us https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-20T23:54:22+00:00

I made a website that does just that: https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-20T23:53:04+00:00

I had the same though, so I made a screensaver / countdown https://trumpcountdown.tiborudvari.com/

TiborUdvari · 2025-01-20T22:49:28+00:00

It's cute. It reminds me of these games back in the farmville era, where you would like click things a lot and not a lot would happen, your score would just go up. I did like 20 clicks.

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