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Extension Workshop
Launchpad for why and how to build Firefox extensions.
Getting Started
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
Prerequisites
- Ruby 2.6.1, a dynamic open-source programming language
- Jekyll site generator for Github Pages
- Yarn Package Manager
Once you have Jekyll and yarn insalled you'll need to install the dependencies:
bundle install
yarn install
Then to run locally in devlopment run:
yarn start
Note: Running locally will show unpublished content that uses the published: false
convention in frontmatter. Content with published: false
will not be available on stage or production.
Available yarn commands
Command | Description |
---|---|
yarn clean | Clears the output directly and cleans the .jekyll-cache. |
yarn build | Builds the site. |
yarn start | Starts jekyll and includes unpublished content. (Note the first run is slow!) |
yarn start-prodlike | Starts jekyll and doesn't include unpublished content for a production-like experience. |
Content Updates
This site has three templates: a full-width page, a sidebar page for documentation, and a Content Guidelines page
How to add a Content Guidelines page
Create a new page
- Create new file
- Add header (see example below)
- Copy 'modules' needed from
content-guidelines/master-template.md
and paste in new file - Save as markdown:
content-guidelines/page-name.md
---
layout: guides
title: Page Name
permalink: /content-guidelines/page-name/
published: false
---
Note: published: false
will withhold this content from stage and production, to publish content, remove this line.
Upload media
- Add the image files to
_assets/img/
- In your page, link to images using this page structure:
This tag will output an entire img
element. Note: that using @optim
enables the jekyll asset pipeline to optimize the image. This is always recommended unless you see an issue with the output.
{% asset "image.jpg" @optim %}
For finer control you can use:
<img src="{% asset "image.jpg" @path @optim %}" someattr="whatever" />
Here's an example using markdown - note you need to add @path
and @optim
.
![Remembear subtitle screenshot]({% asset "content-guidelines/remembear-subtitle.png" @path @optim %} "Remembear subtitle text")
Add the page to the menu
Go to _data/content-guidelines-pages.yaml
and add a new entry for your page:
- title: "Page Name"
url: "/content-guidelines/page-name/"
draft-label: true
Controlling draft labelling
If you don't want the page to be labelled as a draft, as and when it's ready remove draft-label: true
from the relevant entry in _data/content-guidelines.yaml
Deployment
The site is auto-deployed on commits to master to https://extensionworkshop.allizom.org/
Tagged commits will be auto deployed to production.