topola-webpack

This is a very simple genealogy viewer based on topola. Its main purpose is to allow deploying of small, self-contained interactive genealogy trees to a generic HTTP server.

Essential part of the code is based on the “Animations” example from topola.

Features:

• no need for npm (or any other back-end) on a destination server: the entire bundle, including pre-processed genealogical data, is prepared and minified with webpack
• supports hash-based shortcuts for individuals: you can easily save URLs to start browsing from the selected individual, e.g. http://example.org/my-tree/#I123#0.

Usage

You will need npm, but only for building the bundle.

After cloning/copying the repository, run

./build.sh mydata.ged index.html

where mydata.ged is a path to your personal genealogical data in GEDCOM format, and index.html is the name for the standalone HTML file to be generated.

That's it! The bundle (HTML+JS) will be ready under the given path. You can either copy it to the destination server or simply open it in a browser.