This repository hosts the website for Southeast Dreamin' using Github Pages serving out the gh-pages branch of this repository.
The build process is managed by the build.yml Github actions. This build process consists of three main steps
The build process checks out a node instance with the npm directory cached
Using npm, the dependencies are pull down and the lint process is ran checking all the Javascipt, CSS, YAML and JSON files. Then the build process is started.
The build process is run using Gulp and the projects gulpfile.js. This process takes the various files, compiles or moves them into the dist directory. The majority of these are the Nunjucks templates comprising the sites pages.
After the build is complete, the contents of the dist folder are copied into the gh_pages branch of the repository and then rendered out as the website.
To update existing content on the site, simply edit the raw HTML in the pages directory for the appropriate page or modify the accompanying JSON file. Most page's are driven from data in these JSON files.
When a new year is needed, create a folder under html/pages/sponsors, html/pages/team, html/pages/schedule and html/pages/sessions. Copy each folder's index.html and reuse the structure of it's index.json file to create the data for the current year. Additionally, site-wide information and display flags are configured in the _globals.html file.
In addition to more generalized tooling this repo has some specific tools that can be found in the tools directory such as the speakerReport.js and sponsorReport.js that check for the healthiness of the speaker and sponsor data. The generateWhovaSessionAgenda.js script will generate a CSV that can be imported into the Whova Excel file to generate the session agenda in Whova.