Website: Open Stats

[jsjoeio]

Summary

It would be cool to share some stats related to my newsletter, like number of subscribers, average open rate, average clicks, average number of emails sent per month.

Basic example

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Motivation

Practicing transparency. Aligns with the idea of open source. Good for the community, fun to share :)

[jsjoeio]

Something like Lee's Dashboard page

He even wrote up a blog post on how to do it!

https://leerob.io/blog/fetching-data-with-swr

[jsjoeio]

This will help too: https://leerob.io/blog/real-time-post-views

[jsjoeio]

And this

https://jamstackfns.com/f/firebase

[jsjoeio]

I might call it /open like Nomad List

[jsjoeio]

Todos

• Add netlify functions to site
• Get function work in production
• Add firebase
• Add environment variables to Netlify
• Refactor into other file
• Figure out accountServiceKey.json
• Test function to get page views
• Add page views to blog posts
• Add /open page

[jsjoeio]

https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2018-12-17-turning-the-static-dynamic/

[jsjoeio]

netlify/netlify-lambda#118

[jsjoeio]

https://dev.to/jackabox/using-firebase-admin-sdk-with-netlify-lambda-functions-4h8e

[jsjoeio]

https://kyleshevlin.com/firebase-and-gatsby-together-at-last

[jsjoeio]

Man, I'm struggling hard core with this Firebase part.

[jsjoeio]

I think I've run into every error possible...

Error during invocation:  TypeError: i.initStandalone is not a function

[jsjoeio]

https://joshwcomeau.com/gatsby/netlify-functions-and-gatsby-cloud/#zip-it-and-ship-it

[jsjoeio]

man i give up :(

[jsjoeio]

Firebase url

[jsjoeio]

what day...6 hours of trying.

okay i got basic functions working with netlify. no luck with firebase yet

[jsjoeio]

To get the function to work in production:

• I added a command to the build in the netlify.toml
• updated yarn build in the package.json
• updated the functions directory functions-build in the Netlify UI

[jsjoeio]

soooo close, I can't get it to work without the JSON file though...

[jsjoeio]

I got it working!

Now to try and make it environment variables: https://community.netlify.com/t/using-firebase-admin-sdk-with-lambda-function/2136

[jsjoeio]

Using local env with netlify-lambda

netlify/netlify-lambda#118

[jsjoeio]

FINALLY

[jsjoeio]

Closed via #141