My name is Jarrod Lilkendey, I am a software engineer based in Geelong, Australia.
- 🕘 I built a time tracker web application using NextJS: repo, docs
- 📈 I built a productivity web application based on the book Getting Things Done by David Allen using NextJS: repo
- Try out the 168 Hours App time tracker
- The application uses the following Tech Stack; React with NextJS, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, NextAuth and Prisma
- The goal of this project was to gain further experience with NextJS with the focus of building it in a way that is fully testable
- The secondary goal was to gain experience self hosting a NextJS application outside of Vercel's hosting infrastructure
- React Testing library is used for Unit testing
- Cypress is used for running integration, E2E tests and integration testing on API routes
- Jest is used as a Test Runner
- The application is built into a Docker image and is hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS
- The Digital Ocean VPS hosts more than one of my web applications in different Docker containers and NGINX proxy manager is used as a reverse proxy which uses the hostname to route through to the correct Docker container
- DNS records are managed through CloudFlare and incoming web traffic to the Digital Ocean Droplet is whitelisted for only CloudFlare's IP addresses for DDoS mitigation
- GitHub Actions is used for CI/CD
- Monitoring is setup via Uptime Kuma that runs within my homelab, which every 60 seconds verifies the website is up and the TLS certificate is valid
- The Digital Ocean VPS is running Ubuntu Server operating system that I self manage. I use an Ansible playbook for downloading and installing the latest packages to keep the operating system up to date. Using Semaphore UI in my homelab, I have configured this Ansible playbook to run once a day using Cron over SSH.