About
Team
Bethany Drake
Bethany is an Australian programmer specialising in web development. She primarily writes fantasy novels, with occasional daliances into sci-fi and historical fiction.
You?
Although she does her best, Bethany is not an artist, graphic designer, or ui designer. If you see something ugly that you know how to fix, please contact bethany@novel-november.com with a short description of your experience and availability.
Rahma • You?
Before changes are released to the site, they are deployed to a 'preview' environment. This preview site can be used like a sandbox to play around with the new feature and find any bugs. For instructions on how to get access to the preview site, please contact bethany@novel-november.com
Technology
Next.js
Next.js is ostensibly a frontend framework, although server-side rendering, server components, and server actions mean it also acts as a BFF API. It uses React and Typescript.
Neon (PostgreSQL)
Relational databases store information in a way that is optimised for retrieval and manipulation. It makes it easy to reach in and grab the exact information that we need — like, getting all the comments for a particular thread. Neon is a service for managing database infrastructure, while PostgreSQL is the underlying technology.
GitHub
Git is a tool that makes it easy for lots of people to safely work on a project at once. It keeps a record of all the code that has been written, like using 'track changes' on a shared document. This means that if something breaks, it's easy to go back to a previous version. Anyone can make a github account and contribute to the project. Don't worry, it will be checked before it goes live — you won't break anything!