TFAA

Texas Fine Arts Administrators (TFAA) (link)

(Formerly the Texas Music Administrators Conference (TMAC) (link))

This website was constructed for Jeff Turner, Mario Luna, and the Texas Music Administrators Conference. Planning began in January 2018 with building starting in mid-February 2018.

Starting in November 2022, a new design was built by Luis Velasquez at LV Branding. The new design launched in early February 2023.

In July 2023 Peter Warshaw took over as the TFAA Executive Secretary.

Tools

• GatsbyJS
• React
• Contentful (as CMS)
• Cloudinary (as CDN)
• Firebase for authentication
• Firestore for data storage
• Google Scripts to sync with Firebase data
• MUI
• TypeScript (partially implemented)

Gatsby Plugins

• gatsby-theme-material-ui
  • This provides up-to-date MUI components and theming. Some components like Link have been updated to work with Gatsby.
• @sentry/gatsby
  • Adds ability for Sentry to catch exceptions that users encounter on the site. Check the attached Sentry account for info on specific errors.
  • All Sentry packages need to be on the same version.
• gatsby-source-contentful
  • These parts of the site fetch data from Contentful at build time:
    • Officers
    • Area Representatives
    • Some Events
  • If the Contentful data is updated, a TFAA dev needs to re-deploy the site on Netliy for the changes to go live.
• gatsby-plugin-typography
  • Allows adding custom fonts
• gatsby-plugin-canonical-urls
  • Inserts a link tag in the head of each page with rel="canonical" added. This helps ensure that all saved pages everywhere will point to the https address for this site.

Inspiration

Heavily inspired by the Gatsby v1 documentation website.

Running in development

1. Clone this repo
2. Add .env file based on example.env. Get secret values from another TFAA dev.
3. Install dependencies → yarn
4. Start the development server → yarn dev

Version History

• v1
  • An old WordPress site. The person in charge of it somehow deleted it completely.
  • Mike Mathew sifted through the Internet Archive to find older content to fit into the redesigned site.
• v2
  • A Gatsby site represented by this repository.
  • Gatsby v1 through v3 were built 2018-2022
  • Gatsby v4 update was November 2022
• v3 (coming soon)
  • The organization's name changed to Texas Fine Arts Administrators (TFAA) in Fall 2022.
  • A modernized Gatsby site with a fresh coat of paint from Luis Velasquez at LV Branding

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