Life of JavaScript

http://resin.io/happy-18th-birthday-javascript/ captures the timeline of JavaScript. And i felt it apt to build a visual timeline using JavaScript. So i brought http://resin.io/happy-18th-birthday-javascript/ and used Life (https://github.com/cheeaun/life) to map it out.

Life

This is something that I've wanted to build for a long time. It's a timeline of important events in my life, visualized in a way my mind always imagine it. There was something called Lifepath.me but now it's gone. How about Facebook timeline? Meh.

So, this is it. Have a look at cheeaun.github.io/life.

Features

• Super simple
• No fancy formatting
• No fancy setup
• No fancy effects
• Flexible datetimes because sometimes you don't remember the exact date of an event

How to contribute

1. Fork this project.
2. Write code.
3. Make pull requests.

How to setup your own Life

1. Fork this project.
2. git checkout -b gh-pages (or any branch name you like)
3. Make a copy of life.example.md, rename it to life.md.
4. Add your life events into life.md.
5. Preview it on a local server. Use python -m SimpleHTTPServer or http-server.
6. Commit life.md (not in master branch).
7. git push origin gh-pages -f and publish to GitHub Pages.
8. Update the website link in your GitHub repo description.
9. Tell the world about your Life.
10. Add your Life to the Lives page.

How to upgrade your Life

1. git checkout master
2. git remote add cheeaun https://github.com/cheeaun/life.git
3. git fetch cheeaun and git merge cheeaun/master to upgrade to latest Life.
4. git checkout gh-pages and git merge master to sync changes back to GitHub Pages.

Learn more.

For those who forked the earlier version of Life, these are the steps that I would recommend (requires some Git-fu):

1. Backup your life.md.
2. Reset (hard) your fork to this repo's master branch.
3. Clean up your gh-pages.
4. Re-commit your life.md there.
5. Make sure your master branch is untouched so that future updates work.

How to configure your Life

1. Make a copy of config.example.json, rename it to config.json.
2. Only commit it in gh-pages branch.

The configuration:

• customStylesheetURL - (string, default to null) Path to a custom stylesheet file, for those who doesn't like the default theme.
• yearLength - (number, default to 120) The width of the year grids, in pixels.
• hideAge - (boolean, default to false) Option to hide age from year axis.

Datetime "syntax"

• 2000 - event that happen in that year
• 01/2000 - event that happen in that month/year
• 01/01/2000 - event that happen exactly in that day/month/year
• 2001-2005, 10/2001-02/03/2005 - event that happen within the two dates
• ~2005 - event that happen around the time in that year
• 2005-~ - event that happen from that year and beyond (now).

Other people's Lives

Here's a compilation of Lives from the people who has forked Life.

License

MIT