Prateek Sahay's Personal Website

Welcome to the source code of my personal website! I developed this website to archive my favorite projects and write about my thoughts. The initial version in 2011 was written by hand, but I ported it to Jekyll, a static website generator, in 2018, then to Next.js in 2025, and restyled it with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui in 2026.

My website is hosted at prateeksahay.com, psahay.com, and ptkinvent.com.

Local Development

Make sure you have Git LFS installed:

sudo apt install git-lfs
cd website/
git lfs install

Set up a .env.local file:

NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=...
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=...
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY=...

NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=...
CLERK_SECRET_KEY=...
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_IN_URL=/sign-in
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_UP_URL=/sign-up

With Node installed, run:

npm install
npm run dev

Production Deployment

Make sure you have Git LFS installed:

sudo apt install git-lfs
cd website/
git lfs install

With Node installed, run:

npm install
npm run build
npm install -g pm2
pm2 start "npm run start -- -p 8080" --name prateeksahay

With nginx installed, add the following nginx config:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name prateeksahay.com www.prateeksahay.com;
    rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name www.prateeksahay.com prateeksahay.com;

    index index.html;
    root /home/ptkinvent/website;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/prateeksahay.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/prateeksahay.com/privkey.pem;

    location /_next/static {
        alias /home/ptkinvent/website/.next/static;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600, immutable";
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri.html $uri/index.html
        @public
        @nextjs;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
    }

    location @public {
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
    }

    location @nextjs {
        # reverse proxy for next server
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name ptkinvent.com www.ptkinvent.com;
    rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name www.ptkinvent.com ptkinvent.com;

    index index.html;
    root /home/ptkinvent/website;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/prateeksahay.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/prateeksahay.com/privkey.pem;

    location /_next/static {
        alias /home/ptkinvent/website/.next/static;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600, immutable";
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri.html $uri/index.html
        @public
        @nextjs;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
    }

    location @public {
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
    }

    location @nextjs {
        # reverse proxy for next server
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name psahay.com www.psahay.com;
    rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name www.psahay.com psahay.com;

    index index.html;
    root /home/ptkinvent/website;

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/prateeksahay.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/prateeksahay.com/privkey.pem;

    location /_next/static {
        alias /home/ptkinvent/website/.next/static;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600, immutable";
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri.html $uri/index.html
        @public
        @nextjs;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
    }

    location @public {
        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
    }

    location @nextjs {
        # reverse proxy for next server
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

(Optional) Webhooks

https://medium.com/@jgefroh/a-guide-to-using-nginx-for-static-websites-d96a9d034940

1. Install nginx and python3-certbot-nginx
2. Clone github.com/ptkinvent/ptkinvent.github.io
3. Jekyll build
4. Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/prateeksahay.com to add 443 conf and custom 404 page
5. Added webhook: a. Installed Go: sudo apt install golang-go b. go get github.com/adnanh/webhook c. Create a hooks.json which points to a redeploy.sh (search webhooks on Gmail for more info)
6. Unblocked port 9000 on GCloud Compute instance
7. Set up commit hook on GitHub