Why I am doing this, manifest update, minor changes

• Added “Why another free course” section to README.md
• Added project banner to README.md
• Added Stardance note in “Achievements” section to README.md
• Removed giscus comments from start page for visual clarity

This is the last post before the first ship. 🥳 I’m so excited! 😬 I’m so glad I got to share the current development process of this project so far in this (and previous) HackClub event(s).☺️

But this project is far from over. I’m looking forward to extending this even further with more content, different styling, functionality, translations etc.🫡

This change focused on theme and comment/suggestion functionality

I added the starlight-giscus plugin to add giscus support, added an edit page to my config file and followed the steps in the docs for applying a custom theme on a starlight page.

Annoying Bug

When configuring the styling for the giscus plugin in the config, the browser wouldn’t switch neatly when switching from light to dark mode when using themes other than plain light and dark –> using default themes for correct switching logic now.

Started some first lessons here. Will definetly add more to the social cards and maybe configure i18n (still indecisive about that). Anyways, that’s it for this devlog and I hope to see you next time!

After another 30min of router logic battle I got the images working!🥳 Something with how the routing logic subtracts base subtracted the necessary / too so just added an extra one to make it work. #workaround

Astro 7 transition, markdown rendering hell and a functional result

After some growing pains 😖 with the tools I was using (Starlight + Astro), I finally got this project ready and shipped.
Stay tuned for more devlogs!😉

Quick overview of the changes I made✍️:

• Added social links
• Astro 7 transition
• Removed duplicate titles

I worked on the existing project (was already part of flavortown).😄

• Added an update to the manifest regarding a migraton to another static site generator.
• Added a lesson in section 2-language-specific-lessons where I detail my new project - a Java course which is based on the same principles as this course - and describe what it’s for.

Short version

Migrating from Material for MkDocs to Astro Starlight.

Look forward to:

Migration post where I detail the experience with the migration going on in the background!😘