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Code & Creations

THE EPIC QUEST TO DEPLOY A WEBSITE: A Tale of Code and Chaos

Months of Tireless Effort: First, you’ve been grinding away on your personal site for weeks (maybe months?), crafting, tweaking, and perfecting the code into something truly worthy of the cyberpunk gods.
Repository Hijinks: Realizing the local website2 repo wasn’t even on GitHub yet, you discovered a time capsule version of your site in an old website2 repo, which is hilariously out of date. Cue existential sigh.
Repo Renaming Adventures: We pulled off a classic repo shuffle, renaming the ancient website2 to website2-archive like it was a retired general, and then uploaded the new, shiny website2 repo to GitHub like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Netlify Shuffle: Time to delete the old Netlify setup. Why? Because we’re not just keeping things simple here. We nuked the old Netlify deployment and set up a fresh one with the codename warm-crostata-e31905—delicious and mysterious.
NPMRC Shenanigans: Enter the .npmrc problem—your work settings decided to sabotage the build, pulling packages from some cursed corporate registry like a rogue AI gone mad. This resulted in a critical failure mid-build, and frustration levels skyrocketed.
Backup Your Backup’s Backup: After a moment of controlled rage, we backed up the .npmrc file like responsible coders and restored the “normal” one from npmrc-normal-bak. Why do we have all these backups? Only the code gods know.
The Great Cache Purge: We hit npm cache clean --force, effectively giving npm the middle finger and telling it to start fresh, because if you're gonna fix npm problems, might as well go nuclear.
"Where the Hell is my Repo?": After all this meticulous cleaning, you tried to cd into the wrong directory—because, of course, your local website2 repo has decided to play hide-and-seek. A quick mental facepalm, and then back on track.
Node Versioning Ritual: We prayed to the version gods, invoking the .nvmrc file to ensure Node v20.16.0 is active, like a secret spell whispered in a forgotten tongue.
Vanquishing Node Modules: With a battle cry, we nuked node_modules, that bloated directory of dependency hell, followed by removing the ghost of a yarn.lock that apparently never existed, but we tried twice anyway just for good measure.
Yarn Rebirth: With our path cleared of wreckage, we summoned the powers of yarn install to begin the next chapter—installing fresh dependencies from the land of npmjs.org. Would it succeed? Only time (and another cup of coffee) would tell.