Laura Erickson's For the Birds

A birder's portfolio and resources for learning about and helping birds.

Installation

1. Install the Python version listed in runtime.txt
2. Clone the repo and cd in
3. python -m venv forthebirds-venv
4. source forthebirds-venv/bin/activate
5. pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Add a localsettings.py file (see forthebirds/localsettings.sample.py)
7. Start the site with the command ./manage.py runserver

Database Schema

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Code

Django/Python. Scripts live in the standard location (appname/management/commands).

Javascript uses jQuery.

CSS is written in SASS, and uses gulp to automate the compilation of SASS in development. Assuming you have NPM, install the project's dependencies--listed in package.json-- by running the following in the project root:

npm install --dev-save

And to start the gulp build script, run the following in the project root:

npx gulp

Cache busting the stylesheet happens automatically: gulp compilation writes the output file's hash to disk, which updates the stylesheet url. Cache busting javascript must be done manually.