Build Australia

A pre-launch website tracking key performance indicators for Australia's progress across energy, housing, productivity, and innovation.

🌐 Live Site: https://build-australia.pages.dev/ (custom domain coming later)

Overview

Build Australia provides data-driven insights on the metrics that matter most for Australia's future. Currently in pre-launch mode with coming soon indicators for all KPIs.

Features

9 Key Metrics: Tracking energy costs, renewable energy, housing affordability, productivity, GDP per capita, R&D investment, business confidence, infrastructure workforce, and current account balance
Clean Design: Inspired by buildcanada.com with responsive grid layout
Newsletter Signup: Monthly updates and analysis
Pre-launch Ready: All metrics show "Coming Soon" status

Tech Stack

Client (Frontend)

Astro 5.0 - Modern static site generator with partial hydration
React 19 + TypeScript - UI components with latest React features
Tailwind CSS 4.0 - Utility-first CSS framework with Vite plugin
shadcn/ui - Accessible component library built on Radix UI
Recharts - Data visualization for metric charts
TanStack React Table - Powerful table components

Server (Backend)

Bun runtime for data scraping and processing

Development

Client Setup

# Navigate to client directory
cd client

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server (runs on port 3000)
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Preview production build
npm run preview

# Deploy to Cloudflare Pages
npm run deploy

Server Setup

# Navigate to server directory
cd server

# Install dependencies (if any)
bun install

# Run the scraper
bun run index.ts

Project Structure

build-australia/
├── client/                    # Frontend Astro application
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── components/       # Reusable components
│   │   │   ├── Header.astro  # Site header
│   │   │   ├── Footer.astro  # Site footer
│   │   │   ├── MetricCard.tsx # KPI display cards
│   │   │   ├── react/       # Interactive React components
│   │   │   └── ui/          # shadcn/ui components
│   │   ├── pages/           # Astro file-based routing
│   │   │   ├── index.astro  # Main dashboard
│   │   │   ├── about.astro  # About page
│   │   │   ├── manifesto.astro # Manifesto page
│   │   │   ├── projects/    # Projects section
│   │   │   ├── essays/      # Essays section
│   │   │   └── newsletter.astro # Newsletter signup
│   │   ├── data/            # Data definitions
│   │   │   ├── metrics.ts   # KPI definitions
│   │   │   ├── australian-inventions.ts
│   │   │   └── projects-registry.ts
│   │   └── styles/          # Global styles with Tailwind
│   ├── astro.config.mjs     # Astro configuration
│   └── package.json
└── server/                   # Backend Bun application
    └── readme.md            # Server documentation

Metrics Tracked

Residential Electricity Prices (c/kWh)
Renewable Energy Share (%)
Housing Affordability Ratio (ratio)
Labour Productivity Growth (% quarterly)
GDP per Capita (USD)
R&D Investment Intensity (% of GDP)
Business Confidence (index points)
Infrastructure Worker Shortage (thousand workers)
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

Launch Preparation

All metrics currently show "Coming Soon" status. To go live:

Update client/src/data/metrics.ts with real data
Configure the server scraper to fetch live data
Add actual source URLs
Update trend indicators
Consider adding historical context and expert quotes

Deployment

The site is deployed via Cloudflare Pages with automatic deployments from the main branch:

Live URL: https://build-australia.pages.dev/
Auto-deploy: Pushes to main trigger automatic builds
Build command: cd client && npm install && npm run build
Output directory: client/dist
Framework preset: Astro
Node version: 18+ recommended
Custom domain: Coming soon

To deploy manually from the client directory:

npm run deploy

Contributing

This is a pre-launch project. Contributions welcome once live data integration begins.

License

MIT

ponderingdemocritus/build-australia