FoBV - Docker

David Williamson @ Varilink Computing Ltd

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Docker setup for running The Friends of Bennerley Viaduct website locally, for development and testing purposes. Contains a set of services to simulate the website locally and tools to perform development actions on the website, all defined as Docker Compose services.

Contents

Location	Contents
tools/	Varilink Computing Ltd tools that are used by this repository, included here as submodules.
wordpress/	The FoBV - WordPress repository, included here as a submodule.
.env docker‑compose.yml dummy.yml public.env	Project Docker Compose configuration, excluding secret environment variables that aren't tracked for security reasons.

Usage

Install Project's Node Dependencies

WordPress theme:

docker-compose run --rm --volume="$PWD/wordpress/theme/:/npm/" npm install

Plugins (only if scaffolding new blocks using @wordpress/create-block):

docker-compose run --rm --volume="$PWD/wordpress/plugins/:/npm/" npm install

FoBV event plugin:

docker-compose run --rm --volume="$PWD/wordpress/plugins/fobv-event/:/npm/" npm install

Build Project's Client Assets

Theme additional CSS:

docker-compose run --rm --volume="$PWD/wordpress/theme/:/npm/ npx sass --style=compressed --no-source-map for-theme-json.scss for-theme-json.css

Note: The output, which is written to for-theme-json.css must then be copied to theme.json as the value of styles->css there.

Theme images (generated using GIMP):

docker-compose run --rm gimp

Note: First ensure that the directory wordpress/media/ is created.

Build FoBV event plugin's javascript and stylesheet assets:

docker-compose run --rm --volume="$PWD/wordpress/plugins/fobv-event/:/npm/" npm run build