Jonathon Pena
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Woodfox RoastersLive

Rebuilding Woodfox on Astro

Third version of the Woodfox site. Coffees are now Markdown files with a status, so the menu can change with the harvest without touching layout.

The Woodfox Roasters sourcing page
The Woodfox Roasters sourcing page

Rebuilt woodfoxroasters.com on Astro.

The big change is structural: each coffee is now a Markdown file with a status (upcoming, available, sold-out). Pages and listings generate from those files. Until the first coffee is published, a “coming soon” panel shows automatically.

Other things that changed:

  • Forms validate and then say plainly that nothing was sent until an endpoint is connected. No fake “thanks!”
  • Checkout is designed as a per-coffee hosted link (Stripe or Shopify), so there’s no cart or backend to maintain yet.
  • About 3 KB of JavaScript for the whole site.

One bug worth writing down: the production build silently dropped all CSS because the project lived in a redirected folder. The dev server was fine. Fix was vite.resolve.preserveSymlinks: true. Took longer to find than to fix.