Novus-Flux.io

This is one of those goofy early ones, from back when I still thought that a lifetime wasted on backend engineering would make a simple Material front end easy. It is a small project space for an artist, with a Google Drive folder as its content source.

Drive was the pragmatic answer to two constraints at once. I was not going to pay for image hosting on a small portfolio, and I did not need a CMS in any real sense: Gatsby generates every derivative asset at build time, so the only thing the site needs out of storage is the original files.

The plugin that pulls Drive into Gatsby had been abandoned by then, so I read it and wrote my own instead, based on its 0.2.1, but doing a bit more. Mine runs on onPreInit, before the data layer exists, and it unpacks archives on the way in: drop a zip into the folder and it arrives as a directory of assets.

// This is based on the 0.2.1 version of "@fs/gatsby-plugin-drive"
// But this one does a bit more
// maybe i could fork that and create a configurable solution later

...

if (extensionKappa === "zip") {
  var zip = new AdmZip(filePath);
  zip.extractAllTo(creatableFolderPath, true);
}