Jacob Builds

Use what you need

A small toolkit.
Not a shopping list.

These are tools used to build this project. Start with a job to do, then choose a tool. You may already have enough.

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Astro

This site's pages are built with Astro. A static publishing approach suits a handful of guides without accounts or a database.

Use your existing publishing system if it already makes editing easy. A framework migration needs a better reason than novelty.

Git & GitHub

The project keeps code and text changes in version control. Reviewing a diff makes it easier to understand what changed and recover earlier work.

Keep secrets and private business records out of a public repository. Version control is not a substitute for an independent backup of private files.

Cloudflare Pages

The existing stockswatch.cc site uses Cloudflare Pages. Keeping the same hosting avoids introducing another service just to publish these guides.

Check your own usage and billing before assuming hosting is free. This list makes no promise about a provider's current pricing.

Playwright

This project uses browser checks for navigation, mobile layouts and accessibility. The useful question is whether a reader can complete the intended task.

A passing automated test is only part of the picture. Read the page, use the keyboard and inspect it at a narrow screen size too.