NYC Slice of Life 🍕

February 21, 2026 · View on GitHub

Welcome to the official website of NYC Slice of Life, a project that chronicles New York City’s best pop-ups, hidden gems, and stories — all through the lens of an NYC pop-up lover.

Follow the journey on Instagram 🍕📸

🚀 About This Website

This site expands on the NYC Slice of Life Instagram experience with a more interactive and informative hub. Built from scratch by Alex, the site currently features:

🧭 Pages

  • Home Page: The main hub — links to blog posts, featured pop-ups, and recent highlights.
  • About Me Page: A look into the founder's story, her love for NYC pop-ups, and why this account exists.
  • Calendar Page: A living calendar of NYC pop-up-related events — from grand openings to pop-ups.

Future plans include:

  • TBD!

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (vanilla to start)
  • Git & GitHub for version control
  • GitHub Pages for hosting and deployment

📦 Local Development

To get started locally:

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/project-pizza.git

# Move into the project folder
cd project-pizza

# Open index.html directly in your browser, or serve it locally:
npx serve .

🔒 Security + CI/CD Automation

GitHub Actions now enforces branch-specific quality gates:

staging integration gate

  • Sanity Studio build verification (sanity/npm run build)
  • CSS lint (Stylelint)
  • HTML lint (HTMLHint)
  • Unit tests (Vitest)
  • Broken link/internal asset checks (Lychee)
  • Lighthouse CI assertions (performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO)
  • E2E smoke tests (Playwright)
  • Dependency Review, ESLint, npm audit, Gitleaks, and optional Snyk

main deployment gate

  • Pre-merge checks on PRs to main (build + smoke tests)
  • Post-merge deployment health checks against production URLs
  • Manual rollback automation via GitHub Actions workflow

Dependabot (.github/dependabot.yml) remains enabled for weekly npm updates in sanity/.

📚 Project Documentation