The Reunion Project

Usage

1. Midnight Theme. Use the GitHub Pages Midnight Theme as a resource. This project started with customization of _layouts/default.html from the Midnight Theme. If you wanted to use a different GitHub Pages Themes, you would similarly change _layouts/default.html from repo used to support that theme. Observe comment at top of _layouts/default.html ...

<!-- 
  _layouts/default.html
  customization to original Midnight theme 
  found through GitHub Pages Themes
 -->

2. Preview Site (Option A) - Testing your GitHub Pages site locally with Jekyll. This instruction provides instructions for ruby Gemfile,bundle install. As an addition add .gitignore to avoid seeing build files in commit. After pre-requisites run this command to obtain prompt for web server ...

bundle exec jekyll serve -H 0.0.0.0 -P 4001 # -H and -P are optional

3. Install Nix and run using a Nix shell (Option B). This should be quicker than Docker and more reliable than previous.

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) # installs nix requires root password

# restart terminal as shell is updated, then cd ~/vscode/project-dir assuming you have it cloned

nix-shell # start shell, aka nix os virtual environment
code . # activate VSCode in current directory

# open vscode terminal

bundle install # only need to run once, first time. If this command doesn't work, delete your github repo, and reclone it. 

bundle exec jekyll serve # run server

bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload --force_polling # if you are on WSL/windows and the above command doesn't work, try this.

4. Preview Site (Option C) - GitHub Pages Ruby Gem has additional information on making a local server. Ruby requirements are the same: Gemfile,bundle install. This README looks like basis of FastPages make server as it uses Docker and shows how to setup a Makefile.

5. Customizing style (CSS). This project uses /assets/css/style.scss as the location to customize your CSS. To avoid warnings in VSCode make sure you install SCSS IntelliSense plugin. To understand default style, make sure you Preview Site and refer to build generated _site/assets/css/style.css (this is worth 1000 lectures). For the reunion site gallery.md uses custom style from assets/css/style.css to support 3 images per row. Observe file and position of import and custom CSS, order is important as clarified in Midnight Theme readme. ...

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@import "{{ site.theme }}";

/* "row style" is flexible size and aligns pictures in center */
.row {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
  }
  
  /* "column style" is one-third of the width with padding */
  .column {
    flex: 33.33%;
    padding: 5px;
  }