WhoRuled is an interactive world-history map. Stack: Astro (static), one React island for the Canvas 2D map, TypeScript strict, deployed as static assets on Cloudflare, no backend. Facts live in CC0 JSON keyed by Wikidata QID, and a pipeline imports rulers from Wikipedia with source URL and quote. Every claim needs a source or the page isn’t indexable.

Things I learned: preloading the two pixel fonts took CLS from 0.425 to 0.000, and the build generates 1,600+ SEO pages from the data.

Repo: https://github.com/nsijwali/WhoRuled.

Feedback welcome, especially on the data model.