Launchpad

This repository contains intentionally organized and curated content for Protocol Labs' Launchpad program. We welcome contributions, but please read the Contributing section below.

The default branch for this repository is main for the curriculum published on: https://curriculum.pl-launchpad.io/.

!Important! The content published on the now deprecated Gitbook at https://protocol-labs.gitbook.io/launchpad-curriculum is configured & published from the gitbook branch.

Contributing to the Launchpad Curriculum

We highly encourage collaboration & contributions from others who are creating content! Adding tutorials to the Tutorials page of the platform, and Dev Tools pages are super helpful!

• See the Style Guide for information on how to format the markdown and add content like images and videos

• See the directions for creating tutorials and dev tools pages

• We would love to make a PR To help get you started! ping the core contributors to this repository, or open an Issue.

Sections

Curriculum

• Getting Started
• Web3
• The Protocol Labs Network
• IPFS
• Filecoin
• IPLD
• LibP2p
• DevTools

Tutorials

• FVM
• IPFS
• IPLD
• libp2p
• Metamask

Hugo

Use Hugo to statically serve & preview files on your machine

• Create a fork of this repo or simply use git clone git@github.com:protocol/launchpad.git
• Open the /launchpad folder where you cloned it
• Install version 0.101.1 + of Hugo with brew install hugo
• Run npm install from the top level of the launchpad repository
• Run hugo server to start hugo & preview this on localhost:1313

Note that you may have the run npm install on new/ others' branches you checkout and server before running hugo server

Editing Content

Content is located in content/en/ and the directories in there will be one of the links along the top of the page.

Edit the landing pages in section-name/index.html or section-name/objectives.html or section-name.md

Edit Sidebar content in config/_default/menus/menus.en.toml

Content Maintainers

When editing content, please ask for a PR review from a content maintainer:

• Curriculum website structure, formatting, and maintenance: @chase
• Launchpad Getting Started: @momack2
• Web3 Basics: @hammertoe
• PL Network: @rschanger
• IPFS: @2color
• IPLD: @2color
• libp2p: @2color
• Filecoin: @hammertoe
• DevTools: @hammertoe

Content Maintainer Expectations

1. Review and merge new PRs to their section of the curriculum
2. Keep curriculum content "up to date" - including linking to new content when its source of truth moves to new locations (ex, if curriculum content is moved to a new source of truth, link to the new source of truth within the curriculum (and remove the duplicated content)
3. Review their curriculum section at least 1x/quarter to check for needed updates / deprecation / etc

Launchpad Homepage

The Launchpad homepage is now a single html file, which is also hosted by Hugo and tracked in this repository at: layouts/index.html.

CSS for the homepage is mostly managed through tailwindcss, which gets installed automatically with npm. Tailwindcss runs as a standalone application, monitoring the source code, and generating only the css that will be needed. The command to run the tailwindcss daemon from the root directory is:

npx tailwindcss -i ./static/css/tailwind-input.css -o ./static/css/tailwind-output.css --minify --watch