Building Loomify: Routes and Developer Consoles
Today, I was on a mission to fixing how our website redirects its URL paths and domains. We have a lot links plans that focuses on just blogging, job postings, booking a call and so on. On the first assessment of the problem was that we have all this intended routes and domains but I haven't gotten around to organizing it, so this was my opportunity.
I work with Cloudflare Workers a lot. I find the developer experience to be easy and straightforward. The CLI was also simple to get started with and once everything is set up deploying is a breeze. For my case, I used a Cloudflare Worker to manage how to redirect everything. I setup a Hono project because my use case was pretty simple.
What I found difficult with this was the DNS propogation. I initially had a Cloudflare Worker that used the main domain and it's only function is to redirect it to Framer. It was a vibe-coded JS script that did just that. Sometimes, patience was not my virtue and assumed that every change I did didn't work. So it turns out it just takes a while to have things changed.
Today, I was also was able to setup our Facebook app that will allow us to have advanced access to some APIs. We had a rollout of the first demo of the Instagram Bidding Tracker and we were able to get by with just having the app set to "Live" and adding an "Instagram Tester."
It was a fairly quick process but you have to have the answers ready for the checks they have on data handling and such of the app. It's worth mentioning that prior to getting access you have to be a registered business with documents. I'm registered as a Sole Proprietor so I submitted my Certificate of Registration for verification. You can build apps for yourself and utilize Meta's API, but the moment your accessing other people's data you have to have it reviewed and get verified. Someday I'll build a tutorial fo this since this whole process was something I didn't think would take a while.
TLDR;
- Fixed routes using Cloudflare
- Set-up Meta App for Facebook integration to the bidding tracker