CRDS-NET

A Static Site Generator for crossroads.net

Table Of Contents

1. Quick Start
2. Working With Content
3. Submodules
4. Build Logs
5. Advanced Setup
6. Contributing To The Repo
7. License

Quick Start

1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/crdschurch/crds-net.git then cd ./crds-net
2. Make sure you have Ruby installed - check the OS specific install instructions
3. If you don't have Bundler/Jekyll, install it: gem install bundler jekyll
4. Run bundle install && npm i to add dependencies
5. Make sure submodules are initialized and updated: git submodule init && git submodule update
6. Make sure you have Contentful environment variables set and then run bundle exec jekyll contentful to get the site's content
7. Now you are ready to start a local dev server: bundle exec jekyll serve. If you are using Windows, you may need to refer to the advanced instructions

Alternatively, you can serve crds-net locally with Docker. Setup instructions here.

Working With Content

First, you need to export the following environment variables (you can get these values directly from Contentful or from Netlify)...

CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID=
CONTENTFUL_ENV=
CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN=
CONTENTFUL_MANAGEMENT_TOKEN=
OKTA_CLIENT_ID=
OKTA_OAUTH_BASE_URL=

Then run the following command in your bash prompt to download content to your local collections directory:

bundle exec jekyll contentful

Protip: you can limit the amount of content coming back from the CMS to 10 entries per collection like this: bundle exec jekyll contentful --limit 10. More documentation on jekyll-contentful here.

Images

With the help of imgix, we are using two strategies to increase performance while rendering images:

• Pixellated placeholders
• srcset and sizes attributes For more info on how this works, see the extended documentation in the media repo.

Examples

Inline Images

<img
  src="{{ page.image | imgix: site.imgix }}?{{ site.imgix_params.placeholder }}"
  sizes="{{ site.image_sizes.full_width }}"
  data-optimize-img
/>

This would translate to something like the following (before processing):

<img
  src="//crds-media-int.imgix.net/5G62zla1zOsmKqSo8wmomI/d46b0ec8a96339c72f25b56b7c2dd99b/isle-of-skye.jpg?auto=format,compress&w=10"
  sizes="100vw"
  data-optimize-img
/>

Background Images Background images work similarly, with three exceptions:

• A data-optimize-bg-img attribute is required for processing.
• The dimensions of the imgix image are set automatically based on the container (i.e. it assumes a cover background approach).
• The script watches for changes to the size of the window and will update the background image appropriately.

Meta Data

There will be times when you might want to provide custom meta data for page that lives in the repo (think /oakley). Simple add this block to your front matter above the last ---:

meta:
  title: My Amazing Page
  description: You won't believe how amazing this page is.
  image:
    url: "https://amazing-photos.net/cool"

Protip: indentation matters in yaml. Watchout for code formatting that may remove spaces and jack up your frontmatter.

Submodules

We’re using submodules to share code across multiple repos. You can think of a submodule as a repository within a repository.

Setup

When you first clone a repository with submodules, you’ll need to initialize and the pull in the latest changes. Like so:

    $ git clone git@github.com:crdschurch/crds-net.git
    Cloning into 'crds-net'...
    remote: Enumerating objects: 71, done.
    remote: Counting objects: 100% (71/71), done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (63/63), done.
    remote: Total 6544 (delta 27), reused 32 (delta 8), pack-reused 6473
    Receiving objects: 100% (6544/6544), 4.07 MiB | 7.93 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (3877/3877), done
    $ cd crds-net
    $ git submodule init
    Submodule '_pages' (git@github.com:crdschurch/crds-net-shared.git) registered for path '_pages'
    $ git submodule update
    Cloning into '/Users/tcmacdonald/Sites/tmp/crds-net/_pages'...
    Submodule path '_pages': checked out '995bfc915e66962451107f29d69ad8e4d19fe840'

Troubleshooting

If you see a permissions error when trying to push the submodule, it'll look something like this:

remote: Permission to crdschurch/crds-net-shared.git denied to [USERNAME].
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/crdschurch/crds-net-shared.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

It's likely that where you see [USERNAME] does not match your GitHub username. If on a Mac, this means OS X Keychain has stored a value for your GitHub username and password that is being used wherever you use HTTPS (rather than SSH) to push and pull code from GitHub.

To remedy this, you first have to delete the stored value:

$ git credential-osxkeychain erase
  host=github.com
  protocol=https
  <press return>

This behavior is odd. After hitting Enter after the first line, nothing happens -- you are directed to a blank line in the terminal. That's where you type in host=github.com and hit Enter again. Then followed by the next line. The third empty line you leave blank and hit Enter for a fourth time. Then your credentials should be stored.

If you try to push again, you should be prompted for a new username and password and those will be stored in your keychain for future use.

Future Dated content

The file name is what keeps future dated content from showing on non layout pages. There are examples of this in the config.yml.

collections:
  articles:
    filename: "{{ published_at | date: '%Y-%m-%d' }}-{{ slug }}"

Build Logs

Build logs output to buildlogs.txt

• Local development:
  Log is located at _site/buildlogs.txt

• Netlify Build
  The log can be found at [DEPLOY_URL]/buildlog.txt on any deploy preview

  • Example: https://YOUR_PROJECT_NAME.netlify.com/buildlog.txt

Advanced Setup

Building Assets

crds-net uses jekyll-asset-pipeline to create Javascript/CSS assets. If you see that assets are not showing up make sure to check that the pipeline is installed correctly. If all else fails, try rm -rf _site and then start Jekyll back up.

OS Specific Instructions

Mac

To get started with this project, first make sure you have Ruby installed. This project requires the use of Ruby version >= 2.5.1. If you are on a Mac, Ruby should already be installed but you may need to upgrade your version. rbenv is a great tool to manage your Ruby versions. You can read about that here. Once you have Ruby version >= 2.5.1 installed, make sure you have Ruby bundler installed. gem install bundler After installing bundler, you will be able to install the project's dependencies that are defined in the Gemfile. You can do that by running bundle install Once the project dependencies are installed, you can now kick off a build of the project: bundle exec jekyll serve This will build the site and start up a preview server that allows you to view the work that you have done.

Windows

Installing Ruby & Deps

First, make sure you have Ruby v2.5.1 installed on your machine. You can find Windows installers (with devkit) here. Once you have Ruby version v2.5.1 installed, use Powershell or CMD Prompt to install the Ruby bundler by running gem install bundler

After installing bundler, navigate to this project and install the project's dependencies that are defined in the Gemfile. You can do that by running bundle install

Serving the site

1. Initial site build: bundle exec jekyll build
2. Find the asset hash value in the /temp/.asset_hash file and assign it to the 'ASSET_HASH' environment variable.
3. Run npm run build
4. Run bundle exec jekyll serve --skip-initial-build

Some background: bundle exec jekyll serve serves the page but errors when loading anything from the /assets folder. This workaround makes it accessible.

Linux

First, make sure you have Ruby v2.5.1 installed on your machine. There is a proven guide for getting Ruby installed on your machine that you can read here. This particular guide only needs to be followed up until the Configuring Git heading. Everything from Configuring Git onward is unnecessary to follow. Once you have Ruby v.2.5.1 installed on your machine, you are ready to build the project: bundle exec jekyll serve This will build the site and start up a preview server that allows you to view the work that you have done.

Testing

Contributing To The Repo

As with most crdschurch repos, local feature development should be done against the development branch. Follow these simple steps to contribute:

1. git checkout development and make sure that you are up to date (run git pull)
2. Checkout a fresh branch based off of development: git checkout -b feature/my-branch-name
3. Make local code changes and commit to your new branch
4. When the time is right, create a pull request comparing your new branch to development
5. After a review, your work will be merged into development After these first 5 steps, there are 2 deployment possibilities: Standard or Expedited. See below and choose the right choice for your work.

• Standard: Wait until the normal production deploy which takes place every 2 weeks on Wednesday afternoon. This is the best choice and should be used unless the work is extremely time sensitive.
• Expedited: Sometimes things just need to go to prod immediately. If this is the case follow the steps listed in this doc or reachout to a Bearsharks team member.

License

This project is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License.