This is the GitHub repository for the Julia Programming Language's main website, julialang.org. The repository for the source code of the language itself can be found at github.com/JuliaLang/julia.
The Julia website is generated using GitHub pages and Franklin.jl, a Julia native package for building websites.
To suggest a change to the website, you can simply navigate to the page with the content you think should be changed, and edit it. You will be prompted to fork the repo (if you haven't already) and then open a Pull Request. Once the Pull Request is open, Netlify will build a preview of the site with the changes you made. You can click the link there to validate that the changes appear as you would expect.
Once your Pull Request is merged, you should see your changes show up on the website in a few minutes or less.
To suggest a change to the website that is more significant, it is suggested that you make said changes and test them locally on your device. You can do this by simply forking the base repo, cloning it locally onto your device, making the changes you want, and then following the "Installing locally" instructions below.
Once you have validated that everything looks good, you can open a Pull Request and check the Deploy Preview from Netlify as a final sanity check.
Start by installing Franklin: in Julia,
julia> using Pkg; Pkg.add("Franklin")
(Note: if you already have Franklin, make sure to update it to the latest version before proceeding).
then, clone the repository, cd to it and do
julia> using Franklin
julia> serve()
→ Initial full pass...
→ evaluating code [...] (learning/code-examples.md)
→ Starting the server...
✓ LiveServer listening on https://localhost:8000/ ...
(use CTRL+C to shut down)
Navigate to localhost:8000 in a browser and you should see a preview of any modifications you make locally.
Modifying the CSS: modify the relevant files in _css/.
Modifying the HTML structure: if you want to modify the navbar, or the footer, go to _layout/ and modify the relevant template fragment.
Modifying the landing page: since the landing page has its own design, it is written in HTML with a few insertions of repurposeable fragments where appropriate, just modify index.html
Every so often, one should do an in-depth check that there are no broken links.
While Franklin provides a quick way to do this, it's a good idea to this in depth from time to time.
The broken-link-checker package is a pretty neat way to do this.
After installing it with npm just do
blc https://julialang.org -ro
(it takes a while, and may require you to do it in several steps).