Firstyear Orientation Site

Welcome and orientation site for the BU libraries, made especially for first year students.

Usage

• This is a static website that runs (almost entirely) off of vanilla js/css.
• It pulls in assets from IS&T (fonts, banner styling) and from our Web Components repo
• It also relies on curator.io to pull in our instagram feed. that's currently done through Aidan Sawyer's account (aidans@bu.edu).

Local Development

You can effectively develop on this site without running anything and just by opening index.html in your browser.

$ git clone https://github.com/bulib/firstyear.git
$ cd firstyear
$ open index.html

If you want a better development experience (that auto-updates whenever you save the file), you'll have to install dependencies and run the start script, then go to localhost:8000 in your browser (could be a different port, it'll say in the terminal).

$ npm install
$ npm run start

Deployment

• Staging is located at bulib.github.io/firstyear and is updated automatically (by github) whenever you git push to the master branch (or merge a PR)

• Production is visible at bu.edu/library/firstyear and is published by raw upload to the ftp server managed by IS&T at webdev.bu.edu at the path /web/l/i/library/firstyear/. this is automated with help of the deploy.sh script.

NOTE: you'll have to update the user and dev_path variables in deploy.sh to get it to work.