README.md

Climate Policy Radar

A microsite for Climate Policy Radar - Building the evidence base for evidence-based policymaking

• Dev: https://localhost:3000/
• Staging/QA: auto-generated when new PRs opened
• Production: https://climatepolicyradar.org/
• Trello: https://trello.com/b/lkWx4xWz/climate-policy-radar

Getting Started

1. Clone this repo git clone [email protected]:smithfield-studio/client-climate-policy-radar.git
2. Move into project cd client-climate-policy-radar
3. Run nvm use to ensure you're using Node v16
4. Install dependencies yarn / npm i
5. Start dev server yarn dev / npm run dev

Deployment / Building For Production

Merge PR / push to production branch to auto deploy to live site

Build Notes

Built using SvelteKit static site generator, the documentation is pretty good and there is an active community on Discord.

The VSCode editor is recommended - you will be prompted to install useful extensions (Svelte syntax highlighting etc) when first opening the project.

Latest & Job Posts

Content added using Markdown via mdsvex (Docs) allowing Svelte components to be used within Markdown content.

To add a new Job|Latest post

1. Create a new .md file with the desired slug, ie. ./src/routes/[jobs|latest]/{url-slug}.md
2. Add Any Markdown / HTML / Svelte componets
3. For Latest posts, Add the featured image to ./statuc/images/{url-slug}.jpg thumb, be sure to use an image optimiser to cruch these down before commiting, no pre-processing is run
4. Push to a new branch, create a PR to create a QA URL. Once happy + code has been reviewed; merge into the production branch to deploy to live site

Hosting

The site is hosted and setup to auto deploy to Netlify

Support

For anything else please contact [email protected], thanks!

Run Netlify CMS locally:

To run the CMS locally while developing, run npx netlify-cms-proxy-server

Then go to http://localhost:3000/admin/index.html