bowman-barnworks

Bowman Barnworks Website

Static marketing website for Bowman Barnworks, a Calera, Oklahoma construction and home-improvement company. Built with Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS and deployed to GitHub Pages at https://bowmanbarnworks.com.

Contact form behavior: the project inquiry form does not save submissions to a database. It opens a pre-addressed email to bartbowman@gmail.com with the visitor’s form details and shows an on-page confirmation that the draft is ready to review and send. To capture submissions directly, swap handleInquirySubmit in client/src/pages/Home.tsx for a form provider (Formspree, Web3Forms, a serverless function, etc.). Do not put API credentials in this repository.

Project layout

Path	Purpose
`client/index.html`	HTML shell — page `<title>`, meta description, favicon, social tags.
`client/src/pages/Home.tsx`	The entire page: content, gallery data, FAQ data, form logic, CTAs.
`client/src/index.css`	Fonts (Google Fonts), color tokens, typography utilities, textures, motion.
`client/src/main.tsx` / `App.tsx`	React entry point.
`client/public/images/`	All site images, served at `/images/<filename>`.
`client/public/CNAME`	Custom domain for GitHub Pages (`bowmanbarnworks.com`).
`.github/workflows/deploy.yml`	Builds and publishes to GitHub Pages on every push to `main`.
`docs/`	Administrator guide and image manifest.

Local development

Requires Node.js 20+ (CI uses 22).

npm install
npm run dev      # start the dev server, open the printed URL
npm run build    # type-check + production build into dist/
npm run preview  # serve the production build locally

Deployment (GitHub Pages)

Deployment is automatic. On every push to main, the workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml runs npm ci && npm run build and publishes dist/ to GitHub Pages.

One-time repository setup:

Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Source: select GitHub Actions.
Push to main (or run the workflow manually from the Actions tab). The first run creates the github-pages environment and publishes the site.

Custom domain

client/public/CNAME already contains bowmanbarnworks.com, so the build ships a CNAME file and GitHub Pages picks it up automatically. At your DNS provider, add:

Type	Host	Value
A	`@`	`185.199.108.153`
A	`@`	`185.199.109.153`
A	`@`	`185.199.110.153`
A	`@`	`185.199.111.153`
CNAME	`www`	`dwdalton80.github.io.`

(GitHub’s apex-domain IPs — confirm against the current list in GitHub’s Pages docs.) After DNS propagates, enable Enforce HTTPS in Settings → Pages.

Hosting without a custom domain

If you ever serve from the project URL https://dwdalton80.github.io/bowman-barnworks/ instead of the custom domain, add a repository variable BASE_PATH = /bowman-barnworks/ (Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Variables). The build reads it via vite.config.ts. Note that image paths written as /images/... string literals in Home.tsx would also need a base prefix in that mode; the custom-domain setup (base /) needs no code changes.

Editing content

Almost everything is in client/src/pages/Home.tsx:

Gallery: the projects array near the top.
Services: the services array.
FAQ: the three question/answer strings.
Inquiry recipient: search for bartbowman@gmail.com.
Headings, founder quote, contact details: inline in the JSX.

Colors, fonts, and textures live in client/src/index.css. Images go in client/public/images/ — see docs/ASSET-MANIFEST.md.

Run npm run build before committing to catch type errors.

Origin

This site was first prototyped with Manus. This repository is the standalone, self-hosted rebuild: Manus runtime plugins, the unused Express server, the component library, and client-side routing were removed, leaving the single-page site and a plain static build.