This is a static site using Jekyll, and Contentful as a data API
First make sure ruby, node, npm, and bundler are installed on your system, then:
bundle install
npm install
bundle exec jekyll build
bundle exec jekyll serve
Contentful API data is fetched and stored in source/_data/contentful
bundle exec rake contentful
Use bundle exec rake contentful to pull the contentful content, this is so the 'sys' property can be pulled to get automatically updated createdAt/updatedAt times for blog posts, etc
gulp deploy
The gulp-gh-pages plugin stores a cache of the repo automatically in a .publish folder, which throws this error when you try to deploy after deleting your gh-pages branch.
Error in plugin 'gulp-gh-pages'
Message:
Command failed: git pull
Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref 'refs/heads/gh-pages'
from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.
Details:
killed: false
code: 1
signal: null
cmd: git pull
To fix this, delete the .publish folder in the root of the directory and then run gulp deploy again.