Hollowverse is a website that focuses on the profound ideas of influential individuals.
What you see today on Hollowverse.com is the legacy website that was built years ago using a simple WordPress CMS and editorial content. We are rebuilding the website using a newer technology stack and a user-generated content model.
To learn more about the new Hollowverse product, see our Product Description wiki page.
The project is powered by a JavaScript/TypeScript stack running on Amazon Web Services. We use Node.js, Express, and SQL for the back-end. React and its ecosystem tools for the front-end.
If you're interested in contributing to the project in any capacity (design, code, testing, ideas, etc), we would be happy to talk to you or guide you. Join us on our Discord chat server and let's talk!
For more information, see the wiki.
This repository contains the client-side code as well as the web server which serves the client-side code. These are important parts of the overall architecture of hollowverse.com, but they are not the only parts. Our architecture is documented here.
If you need help or wanna get in touch...
Shout-out to BrowserStack for offering us free unlimited access to their services!
We currently use the BrowserStack Screenshots API in our performance tracking AWS Lambda. The Lambda calls BrowserStack to ask for a screenshot of the website in Chrome 41, and we upload this image to the analytics report which we monitor.
Knowing that our website works in Chrome 41 gives us some assurance that Googlebot can index our client-side rendered website.