simple-remix-blog VS blues-stack

I've ported my personal website to Remix to experiment with this new technology. I also wanted to contribute back to the community so I decided to offer it as a Remix template. You can build a blog like mine and deploy it in just a few minutes. You can navigate through my website to see the final result.

Now, if you followed the PR link, you would have seen that it was merged but had a failing check. And that is what was addressed later while adding Playwright. Since the project was setup using the Remix blues stack, it shipped with cypress for end-to-end testing. The cypress folder had some tests but these were not modified when the app was setup since we intended to use Playwright. This resulted in the typecheck job failing, since it was also checking the cypress folder: tsc && tsc cypress

This week, after some discussion, a plan was made for release 0.1 of starchart. This involved getting an initial app setup using Remix's blues stack so that people could code on top of it. Next step involved creating some issues which could be addressed in release 0.1 release 0.2 and some for further releases. As I am mostly focused on front-end and testing, I created the following issues:

The project is currently in the planning phase, and being part of the development team, I have been researching ways to add relevant bits of Satellite in the Remix Blues Stack project, we intend on using for Starchart.

Blues Stack: Remix Stack for deploying to Fly with PostgreSQL, authentication, testing, linting, formatting

I think this might fit https://github.com/remix-run/blues-stack

Remix doesn’t just give you a bunch of tools and ask you to go build your thing, they lead by example which is why they have the concept of Stacks. Stacks are essentially templates/starter kits that gives you the groundwork for a complete project right out of the box. For our project, we will use the Blues Stack which gives us a fully configured Remix project with Prisma, Tailwind and an entire module that shows how to use those tools to build a CRUD feature. I mean honestly, I feel like I shouldn’t even be writing this post since the template did all the work already. Oh well… I’m in too deep now so might as well finish it.