patrickgraham.net

Developing Legacy is Patrick Graham's genealogy blog, built as a static Astro site and deployed on Netlify.

Project Structure

patrickgraham.net/
├── astro/          # active Astro site
├── cypress/        # browser smoke tests
├── netlify.toml    # Netlify build config
└── package.json    # root helper scripts

Development

Install dependencies from the Astro project folder:

cd astro
npm install

Run the local dev server:

npm run dev

Build the site:

npm run build

Netlify builds from astro/ with npm run build and publishes astro/dist/.

Content

Markdown content lives in astro/src/content/:

• posts/ for blog posts
• family-writings/ for family-authored writing
• transcriptions/ for transcribed historical documents

Images live in astro/public/image/ and are referenced from frontmatter as /image/name.ext.