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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by tugberkk »

black-tea wrote: post #120
Y7ZCQtNo39 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always found the concept of a whole website, domain name, etc dedicated to a wedding to feel a little... heavy. I understand it's a big occasion. It just feels like a lot for a single event and domain that will become irrelevant after the event is over.

Yeah but men basically go insane when trying to impress women. The entire concept of a wedding is insane. That much time, effort and money for something that essentially amounts to a few photographs, most of which are fake and posed. A man wouldn't buy this for himself.

I don't think we do it "to impress", but rather to "not disappoint".

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by pjc50 »

How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work? That's an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it's related to this line:

$.post('https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzUqz44wOat0DiGjRV1g..., data)

... how does the security work on that, or can I RSVP to your wedding too?

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by pjc50 »

Y7ZCQtNo39 wrote: post #42
osrec wrote: post #7

Happy Anniversary! For those looking to use this, the following may help a little: find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Ram/YourName/g' find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Antara/OtherHalfsName/g' Edit: FianceeName -> OtherHalfsName (some people are easily offended) :P

I always found the concept of a whole website, domain name, etc dedicated to a wedding to feel a little... heavy. I understand it's a big occasion. It just feels like a lot for a single event and domain that will become irrelevant after the event is over.

The thing is, a website these days isn't a huge amount of effort if you're already a web developer, and it's not a huge cost to register a domain - certainly far cheaper than even the most basic Fancy Paper Invitations.

It certainly has that nice decentralised feel to it, as opposed to having an official Facebook event. Or using one of the "wedding app" companies.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by Sander_Marechal »

Oh nice, me too!

Here's the site (hosted on my home server, so may be slow under heavy traffic): https://www.astrid-en-sander.nl/

It's not nearly as pretty as all the others here, but I am a backend developer, not a designer. You cat get the source code at https://github.com/sandermarechal/wedding

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by gadders »

pjc50 wrote: post #142

How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work? That's an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it's related to this line: $.post(' https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzUqz44wOat0DiGjRV1g... , data) ... how does the security work on that, or can I RSVP to your wedding too?

I think there is some extra info here: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-to-send-email-via-google-scrip...

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by rampatra »

hit8run wrote: post #61

Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it's probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket science. People were creating wedding websites in the 90s with just one html file and that’s it. Welcome to the age of total bloat.

The only reason node_modules is there in the repo is because I have hosted the website on github (via github pages) no personal server. And github pages doesn't support `npm install` if you know what I mean. So I need to have all the files in the repo for github to serve my website.

If you have a personal server then you do not need node_modules folder in your repo. You can just do `npm install` in your server.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by rampatra »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #85

Cool project! Was this collaboratory between the two of you? I especially love this photo [1], I wish that style of formal wear was more common in America. [1] https://wedding.rampatra.com/img/eng_pics/NGP_4089-lg.jpg

Yes, I coded and she tested it. She also helped me with the color themes. Lastly, she was the final "go/no go", after all, she is the boss.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by rampatra »

nthitz wrote: post #31

Nice! One thing about the RSVP, it has a section where you can specify the number of "Wife or kids" you are bringing. Probably could be reworded to something more neutral. Congrats on your anniversary!

Yes, I agree. Appreciate the constructive feedback.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by hknd »

pjc50 wrote: post #142

How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work? That's an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it's related to this line: $.post(' https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzUqz44wOat0DiGjRV1g... , data) ... how does the security work on that, or can I RSVP to your wedding too?

He is referring to https://github.com/dwyl/learn-to-send-email-via-google-scrip...

It would be quite easy to check the rsvp code in appscript. E.g. have a sheet with all the guests, and give a random number (rsvp code) to each guest. Then on each rsvp request you could check whether that rsvp code exists in the code column. If yes: you'll add the answer to that row. If no: return an error.

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