Public ACRL Sites

www is the repo for the following public ACRL sites

• ACRL - home of Applied Computing Research Labs
• SimKube - home of SimKube

Both sites are:

• built into static assets using mkdocs for static site generation
• automatically re-deployed via a GitHub action on successful merges to the main branch

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3 (^3.11)
• Poetry (for dependency management)
• Git (for version control)
• Just (command runner)

Development

Installation

1. cd to your preferred directory
2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/acrlabs/www.git
   cd www

Running Site Previews

1. cd to the base directory of your local copy www repo

2. Initialize the poetry virtual environment and install dependencies with:

   poetry install

3. Run the serve command:

   just serve {site}

   Replace {site} with either acrl (for ACRL site) or simkube (for SimKube site), example:

   just serve acrl

4. The site will now be accessible at:

   • ACRL - http://localhost:8000
   • SimKube - http://localhost:8001

5. Ctrl + C in the same terminal to terminate

Contributing

1. Clone the repo

2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)

3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')

4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)

5. Test locally (just serve {site})

6. Open a Pull Request to the main branch

7. Merge changes upon PR approval