Ashley Wolf
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Show "by @handle" on each canvas extension card and in the details
modal, linking to the contributor's GitHub profile. Author metadata
lives in each extension's canvas.json (and external.json for external
extensions), where the rest of the canvas metadata is stored.
- Store author {name, url} in canvas.json / external.json
- Read author from canvas.json in the website data generator and emit
it to extensions.json
- Render the GitHub @handle, derived from the profile URL, as the link
text, with the contributor's name as the link title
- Escape the sanitized author URL before interpolating it into href
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Awesome GitHub Copilot website
Astro + Starlight site published to https://awesome-copilot.github.com/.
Local development
Run these from the repository root (they generate the data the site needs first):
npm run website:data # generate public/data/*.json from repo content
npm run website:dev # generate data + start the dev server
npm run website:build # full production build
Social preview cards (LinkedIn, etc.)
Shared links render as large preview cards driven by Open Graph / Twitter meta tags.
LinkedIn (and most platforms) read Open Graph — primarily og:image — while Twitter/X
also uses twitter:card=summary_large_image. Most tags are produced automatically:
- Starlight defaults emit
og:title,og:description,og:url,og:type,og:site_name, andtwitter:card=summary_large_image. astro.config.mjs(globalhead) emits the shared image tags:og:image,og:image:width,og:image:height,og:image:alt, andtwitter:image.src/components/Head.astroaddstwitter:title/description,og:image:secure_url,og:image:type, andtwitter:image:alt.
Each page's title and description (StarlightPage frontmatter) flow into the card text,
so keep them clear and benefit-focused.
The image-dimension invariant
og:image:width / og:image:height in astro.config.mjs describe public/images/social-image.png
(currently 2400×1260, ~1.91:1). Crawlers use these dimensions to understand the image and
may use them when selecting/rendering the preview. If you swap the image or add a per-page image
override, update the full image set so every tag stays consistent: og:image,
og:image:width, og:image:height, og:image:alt, and twitter:image (the last one matters
because Head.astro derives og:image:secure_url from twitter:image first).
After deploying
LinkedIn caches scrapes aggressively. To force a refresh and confirm the card renders, run the
changed URL through the LinkedIn Post Inspector.
HTML output alone doesn't prove the live card — verify the deployed image returns HTTP 200 over
HTTPS with Content-Type: image/png and no auth.