This is the public web site that aggregates communication of group's communities. It consists of the following sections :
- Home page
- Calendar page
- Communities page
- About
Send us a mail to lyonytechhub@googlegroups.com or even request to join the group, it is totally free.
If you have a tech/IT community in Lyon area, request to join Lyon Tech Hub to promote your exciting activity to the community, it is simple as :
- Request access to Google Calendar
- And submit a pull request to update web site (logo & JSON data).
Make sure you do a pull request on master branch including the following :
- your community in community list data/communities.json
- your community details in file data/[key used in list].json
- your community logo in imgs in PNG format with a 100x100 minimum resolution
Contact us on the Google Group, make pull-request, this web site must be managed by Lyon communities themselves.
This web site is done with plain HTML/CSS3/Javascript and AngularJS.
The website is hosted through GitHub pages at lyontechhub.github.io as Organization pages (cf. https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-project-pages). Note that GitHub uses master branch to deploy, that's why we have 'dev' branch as the default one, which contains source code, that is compiled through Gulp and pushed to master for deployment (see below).
It is built upon Bootstrap, with LESS files for theme customisation (see Dev & build environment).
AngularJS is used to organize code in views sharing a common layout and to adapt content according request result on JSON files stores in data directory.
Index.html file is the main entry point that define AngularJS application. Each view is then stored in views directory.
The following JSON files are used to provide content to dynamic views in 'data' directory:
- communities.json
- communities/[one per community].json
Images like community icons are in 'imgs' directory.
Packages are managed through NPM and Bower. So you need NodeJS but just for NPM.
After cloning, just type the following commands to have a :
npm install
npm start
Nb : npm start is configured to start a local Node web server
Gulp is used to build assets (CSS & JS) and copy other assets (data & images) used by the site.
- 'build' task is used to build JS, CSS (from LESS) and HTML to 'dist' directory ('npm start' launch 'build' task before running the local Node web server)
- 'watch' task is used to watch changes on source JS, LESS, HTML & assets files to trigger a build dynamically (never ending task)
- NO MORE USED 'deploy' task is used to commit 'dist' directory content to 'master' branch (excluding 'data' & 'imgs' directories which are modified on 'master' branch directly), specify '--push' to effectively deploy on GitHub pages (i.e push on GitHub master branch)
So, to be well prepared for dev, launch 2 terminals, first one with 'npm start', and second one with 'node_modules.bin\gulp watch'.
To be SEO compliant, we embed web site in a Node.js application only to use prerender.io. The application load the Node.js module for prerender.io, called the middleware (see server.js file). It use Google AJAX crawling specification to make AngularJS application search engine compliant. See https://prerender.io/.
We use a heroku application for the prerender service, which crawl the web site with PhantomJS to return full old HTML. Prerender service is at http://mighty-waters-2486.herokuapp.com/. It has been deployed with following instructions : https://github.com/prerender/prerender#deploying-your-own-on-heroku. It has whitelist enabled with Lyon Tech Hub url only (config var : heroku config to list & heroku config:set to set).
We use heroku to host the web site. To deploy, just push dev branch to master branch of heroku git repository :
heroku git:remote -a lyontechhub #only the first time to add the heroku remote
git push heroku dev:master
Continuous deployment is setup through http://github.com/lyontechhub/heroku-deployer (forked and slightly modified to allow deployment of other branches than dev). heroku-deployer is deployed on http://lyontechhubdeployer.herokuapp.com/. It uses GitHub webhooks to call heroku-deployer that pulls GitHub and pushes to heroku.