Welcome to the MirrorConf's 2018 edition landing page.
MirrorConf is a conference that aims to blur the differences and point towards a collaborative future between designers and front-end developers.
In 2018, our theme was The Future of the Web. And since our future is shaped by our past, we made our website into a travel through time. We look at a bright future full of potential, but we honor the past it is built upon. The simple lessons of the first massively popular pages in the nineties (long before CSS was a thing), the fluorescent extravagances of the eighties arcade dreams, the inventions that harness electricity and its power to revolutionize how we communicate, the ageless influence of the written word to shape societies, the dream-filled civilizations that preceded us in trying to understand the universe, all the way back to the humble beginnings of mankind learning to paint its thoughts in stone.
This event is now part of that past, but the code that allowed us to create this journey is now free for anyone to build a new future. ✨
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After cloning this project, simply run the bin/setup script:
git clone git@github.com:subvisual/2018.mirrorconf.com.git
cd 2018.mirrorconf.com
bin/setup
This script will install the required language versions using asdf-vm, so make sure you have it installed. It will then install Yarn and use it to install all the required dependencies.
To start a development server run:
bin/server
This will start the Gatsby application, which serves the site for preview at https://localhost:8000 (by default), automatically compiling the files as you change them, and automatically refreshing the page in the browser.
https://2018.mirrorconf.com is hosted on AWS S3, and distributed world-wide through AWS CloudFront. We also have a staging environment that has now been decommissioned.
Assuming a similar setup, run yarn run deploy-production to deploy the site
to production. Similarly, deploy-staging will deploy the site to staging.
Both scripts have been sanitized in package.json, make sure to set the appropriate values for the bucket name and distribution ID in each script.
Since the event is now behind us, we are not very interested in accepting any contributions to this project. In any case, if you feel there is something worth addressing, feel free to create a pull-request, or open an issue if you're not sure how to address it. We usually respond to any queries in a matter of days, at most.
Any contributions must follow Subvisual's guides (even if we didn't).
2018.mirrorconf.com is maintained by Subvisual.
It is published under the Apache License 2.0. You are free to fork this project and build upon it. We ask only that you give us some credit and state which changes are yours.
If you build something with this project, we would love to hear about it. ❤️