Marble Website

This repository hosts the website content for the Marble Project. This website contains information about the project as well as tutorials (as a submodule under marble-tutorials/).

To build the site

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 build.py

By default, all files will be written to the build/ directory. To specify a different directory use the -b option when calling build.py.

By default, node information will be read from the default DACCS node registry. To specify a different URL use the -u option when calling build.py

[!NOTE] If you've just cloned the repository, ensure that the marble-tutorials submodule has been cloned as well:

git submodule init
git submodule update

If pulling changes from the main repository, run the following to ensure the submodule is picked up as well:

git pull --recurse-submodules

To view the site

The files in build directory can be served as a static website. For example:

cd build/
python3 -m http.server 8000

This will start a basic http server that can be accessed at http://localhost:8000

(Note that this is recommended for development only)

Development

This is how the files are arranged in this repo and how to update them in order to develop this website.

• Files in the static/ directory will be copied to the build directory without modification.
• Files in the templates/site/ directory will be copied to the build directory after being updated by the template engine
• All other directories in the templates/ directory will not be copied to the build directory but will be used by the templating engine
  • templates/layouts/ contains files that should be extended by other template files
  • templates/partials/ contain files that should be included by other template files
• Files in the snippets/ directory will not be included in the build directory by default. These files will only be included if they are manually added in the build.py script.

The template engine used is Jinja.