cascades/hacksoc.org

Hacksoc website

Building

Set-up

1. Install stack.
2. If you don't have GHC 8.0.2, run stack setup

Build Site Generator

This can be skipped on subsequent executions unless you edit hakyll.hs

1. stack build

This will install a lot of dependencies the first time because Haskell projects always have lots of dependencies.

Note: you may run out of disk space in the stack build if you have a very small /tmp (or /run, depending on how things are set up). stack will complain at you and delete its temporary files. If you run it again, stack build will then pick up where it left off, without rebuilding the dependencies it already built, so you should be good.

Build Site

1. stack exec hacksoc-org build

You can use stack exec hacksoc-org clean to remove the generated files, or just delete _cache and _site yourself.

Usage

This is a summary of hakyll.hs in plain English.

• Templates (in templates/) control how things look. There are currently three:
  • news.html renders a single news article.
  • newslist.html renders a list of news articles, and includes the index page content currently (as we want that to appear on every list page).
  • wrapper.html is applied to every rendered page and contains the header and footer.
• Files in static/ are copied straight to the site, with the static/ prefix dropped (so static/foo becomes accessible at hacksoc.org/foo).
• Articles in news/ appear on the main page and the news pages. See current entries for the format.
• All .html files are wrapped.