Greenhouse

Web engine for nursery.wilburzhang.com

Claude Monet's The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool

(View the public repository here)

Greenhouse is the website generator that powers nursery.wilburzhang.com. It's made using Next.js and a variety of other knick knacks generally following this pipeline:

.md
 ├─ markdown body → remark w/plugins via react-markdown → TSX → HTML
 └─ frontmatter (YAML) → gray-matter → JSON

It allows notes to be written in markdown using software like Obsidian, and renders pages underneath dynamic URLs. Because 99% of content uses SSR, the site is generally lightweight and can run with almost no Javascript on the browser.

Some other features:

  • Cross-link between notes that uses a relatively "native" solution via URL encoding
  • Supports YAML front-matter (i.e: Obsidian's properties feature)

Wallpapers on the landing page are randomly selected from a few artists that I like, then dithered for stylistic preference.