Brighton Brains

Bringing together the creative and digital communities of Brighton and Hove and the academic and student communities of local universities and colleges.

Contributing

This project is built using Jekyll - a static site generator built with Ruby and backed by the Liquid template engine.

Installation

You will need to install Ruby, which comes with a command line tool called gem for installing Ruby dependencies:

brew install ruby

We're going to use gem to install Bundler, which is a command line tool for version controlling dependencies.

gem install bundler

Bundler is then used to install all dependencies of the project:

bundle install

Building and running the project

From here there are a couple of npm scripts you can use.

To run a dev server which watches files for changes you can run:

npm start
# OR
bundle exec jekyll serve

To simply build the project you can run:

npm run build
# OR
bundle exec jekyll build

To update the dependencies (which should be done reasonably regularly) you can run:

npm run update
# OR
bundle update

Project structure

Data

The _data directory contains a listings.json which is a list of all the meetups / groups; their names, descriptions, links and images (the name of the image file within the images directory).

Images

Static assets like images are stored inside an assets directory.

Images for each group / meetup should be placed inside assets/images/groups.

Images for the site / templates should be placed inside assets/images/template.

Styles

This project uses SCSS for styles. All styling should be applied with SCSS inside the _scss directory.

You should aim to use variables where necessary. Take a look in the _scss/variables.scss to see what already exists.

If you are adding a new include / page to the site you should create new scss files for these.