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CoVerified Website

CoVerified is a tool to show your websites users important and verified information about the COVID-19 outbreak

Contribute to fight the virus

We're using Sapper to build a fast and statically exported website

Running the project

However you get the code, you can install dependencies and run the project in development mode with:

yarn
yarn dev

Open up localhost:3000 and start clicking around.

Consult sapper.svelte.dev for help getting started.

Coding guidelines

  • use CSS custom properties for variables
  • use speaking variable names (rather longer and clear than short and meaningless)
  • always use variables for colors
  • always use variables for changing (eg. media queries) or configurable values (component props / css overrides)
  • define local variables on top and global variable on :root or :host
  • use namespaced variable names:
    • do:
      :root {
          --color-primary: #ff00ff;
          --color-border: #ff00ff;
      }
      
      .button {
          --btn-bg-color: var(--btn-bg-color);
          --btn-border-color: var(--color-border);
          --btn-border-width: 1px;
          --btn-border-style: solid;
          
          background-color: var(--btn-bg-color-primary);
          border-color: var(--btn-border-color);
          border-width: var(--btn-border-width);
          border-style: var(--btn-border-style);
      }
    • don't do:
      .btn {
          --primary: #ff00ff;
          --border: 1px solid #333;
          
          background: var(--primary);
          border: var(--border);
      }

Structure

Sapper expects to find two directories in the root of your project — src and static.

src

The src directory contains the entry points for your app — client.js, server.js and (optionally) a service-worker.js — along with a template.html file and a routes directory.

src/routes

This is the heart of your Sapper app. There are two kinds of routes — pages, and server routes.

Pages are Svelte components written in .svelte files. When a user first visits the application, they will be served a server-rendered version of the route in question, plus some JavaScript that 'hydrates' the page and initialises a client-side router. From that point forward, navigating to other pages is handled entirely on the client for a fast, app-like feel. (Sapper will preload and cache the code for these subsequent pages, so that navigation is instantaneous.)

Server routes are modules written in .js files, that export functions corresponding to HTTP methods. Each function receives Express request and response objects as arguments, plus a next function. This is useful for creating a JSON API, for example.

There are three simple rules for naming the files that define your routes:

  • A file called src/routes/about.svelte corresponds to the /about route. A file called src/routes/blog/[slug].svelte corresponds to the /blog/:slug route, in which case params.slug is available to the route
  • The file src/routes/index.svelte (or src/routes/index.js) corresponds to the root of your app. src/routes/about/index.svelte is treated the same as src/routes/about.svelte.
  • Files and directories with a leading underscore do not create routes. This allows you to colocate helper modules and components with the routes that depend on them — for example you could have a file called src/routes/_helpers/datetime.js and it would not create a /_helpers/datetime route

static

The static directory contains any static assets that should be available. These are served using sirv.

In your service-worker.js file, you can import these as files from the generated manifest...

import { files } from '@sapper/service-worker';

...so that you can cache them (though you can choose not to, for example if you don't want to cache very large files).

Bundler config

Sapper uses Rollup or webpack to provide code-splitting and dynamic imports, as well as compiling your Svelte components. With webpack, it also provides hot module reloading. As long as you don't do anything daft, you can edit the configuration files to add whatever plugins you'd like.

Production mode and deployment

To start a production version of your app, run yarn build && yarn start. This will disable live reloading, and activate the appropriate bundler plugins.

Run yarn export to create a static production build in the __sapper__/export dir.

Code of Conduct

We'd like you to follow our Code of Conduct


WirVsVirus

This project was initially started during the #wirvsvirus hackathon