DWYL Site Build Failing (no package.json or .travis.yml file...)

[nelsonic]

As per the readme, the dwyl website is hosted by GitHub Pages and cached by CloudFlare:

There is a "view it locally" section: https://github.com/dwyl/dwyl-site#viewing-locally not listing dependencies in a package.json file is an "anti-pattern" and encouraging people to install things globally is undesirable because it means the person might have a different version of the package installed which leads to unexpected behaviour ... having a clear version listed in a package.json file means everyone knows it works. (yes, I know that live-server is "stable" but the principle remains, and it's the signal this sends to people reading the repo that matters...)

The package.json file was removed recently, as was the .travis.yml file and I feel this is a "regrettable" because now there are no automated tests ... 😢

I am "uncomfortable" with this because it means a human has to manually check/QA every page of the website before it can be published which either reduces our quality control workflow speed considerably or (often more likely) people "relax" their quality control.

I propose we address this.

The last known state for the pacakge.json is: https://github.com/dwyl/dwyl-site/commits/e7dd85c11094b837c3d8387f201af74e75bed53e/package.json I propose we:

• [ ] restore the package.json file
• [ ] remove any unused dependencies
• [ ] add required dependency (live-server)
• [ ] re-commit to project
• [ ] update "run locally" instructions in the readme
• [ ] restore the .travis.yml file so that we can run tests.
  • [ ] this may require an extra step to run the server, or we can use Python simplehttp on Travis-CI: https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html
• [ ] Ensure that tests are passing on Travis-CI
  • [ ] If the are not, document why.

To be clear: It's My (Nelson's) fault for allowing the package.json and .travis.yml file to be deleted. I am responsible for this. so I am fixing it.

[nelsonic]

Build still failing. 😢 But we will be re-doing the size very soon without any package.json to break. 🎉 Closing. ✅