We should say something about this project here.
This site is made with Jekyll. Once you've got Ruby on your computer, you can run:
gem install github-pages(Note: depending on how Ruby was installed, you may need to prefix the above
command with sudo.)
This Jekyll site features dynamic Javascript that queries api.data.gov. For the Javascript to work, it needs an
API key and a base URL. Jekyll will pull them from the local machine's
environment variables at build time, so ensure that both the API_KEY and
API_BASE_URL variables are set before running build scripts.
To start up the local server, run:
jekyll serve --baseurl='' -wThen visit http://localhost:4000 to view it. The -w
(or --watch) flag tells Jekyll to rebuild the relevant pages when you edit
the source files.
- Styles: we're using Sass, which is bundled with Jekyll.
- Font: Montserrat hosted on Google Fonts.
- Charts will be rendered with D3.