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CANFAR.net

Website code for CANFAR.net.

The layout is all Jekyll with Markdown.

Building the static site

Jekyll has a Docker image that can be used to compile the site's source into a static distribution that can then be used to deploy to a running proxy server.

The provided build.sh script will work. It will build for Production by default, but can be used to build to any configured environment declared in the _config.yml file. It is currently configured for demo, rc, and prod (Default):

...
env:
    demo:
        cadc: 'demo.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca'
        canfar: 'demo.canfar.net'
        apps: 'demo.canfar.net'
    rc:
        cadc: 'rc.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca'
        canfar: 'rc-www.canfar.net'
        apps: 'rcapps.canfar.net'
    prod:
        cadc: 'www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca'
        canfar: 'www.canfar.net'
        apps: 'apps.canfar.net'
...
```ls


Custom environments can be added:
```yaml
env:
    ...
    mystaging:
      cadc: 'staging.cadc.ca'
      canfar: 'staging.canfar.net'
      apps: 'staging.canfar.net'
    ...

Then run:

./build.sh mystaging

When the build is finished, the _site folder will contain the compiled static files, with the links set appropriate to the environment configuration.

Running locally (Development)

For development and testing, one can setup their own Jekyll server, or simply pull the official Docker container like so:

docker pull jekyll/jekyll:pages

which is meant as very close simulation of running the site on GitHub.

Then it can be run by cloning this repository. Ensure the HOSTNAME variable is set: export HOSTNAME=myhost.com

or add it into a .env file in this folder.

Then starting the Docker container using the supplied docker-compose.yml file:

mkdir $HOME/src && cd $HOME/src

git clone https://github.com/opencadc/canfar-portal.git canfar_site
cd canfar_site
docker-compose up -d

Or directly using the docker command:

mkdir $HOME/src && cd $HOME/src
git clone https://github.com/opencadc/canfar-portal.git canfar_site
docker run --rm --name canfar-site -p 4000:4000 -v $(pwd)/canfar_site:/srv/jekyll canfar/canfar-site bundle install && bundle exec jekyll s --incremental

Then point a browser to the local site.

Normal development can occur in the $HOME/src/canfar_site directory and will be immediately reflected after a page refresh.

Also, if the _config.yml file contains a baseurl value, it should be commented out before the server starts (or comment it out then restart).

Configuration

The configuration is handled by YAML files located in the _data directory.

translations.yml

This file contains every textualized item on the site. The original (and possibly future) intent was to have a bi-lingual site, so both the fr and en versions have been maintained.

This also offers a convenient way to store re-usable items from the menus so that we can maintain consistency between the left menu and the drop down menus.

menudata.yml

This is menu layout for the dropdown menus and related left-menu (side nav). The format is: <menuname>: [<items>]

Where <menuname> is the related name in translations.yml under the language. The <items> are the same, but they can also be declared as hierarchical using dot (.) notation.

For example, the Services dropdown menu is made up of first level and second level (indented) items like so:

services: ['uvic', 'uvic.cloud_portal', 'cadc', 'cadc.digital_object_identifiers', 'cadc.storage', 'cadc.batch_processing', 'cadc.group_management']

Which will look in the translations.yml file for:

%PAGE_LANGUAGE%/services to get the name to display (Service), then, for each item, will look for %PAGE_LANGUAGE%/services/%ITEM_PATH% to get their links and names to display.

showcases.yml

This is just a configurable way to set the looping showcase images on the front page.