Run npm start to fire up the project server.
Any changes to the src/ folder will trigger live reload.
Where it goes: src/html/partials/story/.
The main HTML file is src/html/index.hbs. Generally speaking, You should mostly just include new partials in there and not modify too much of it since there are a bunch of presets.
Partials are not automatically included. You must add them to index.hbs. If you created a new file content.hbs it would be referenced as {{> story/content }}.
Change base/header in index.hbs:
{{> base/header 'sticky' }}{{> base/header 'sticky-dark' }}
To use the menu but without it being sticky, simply changed position fixed to position absolute in header.styl.
To add in the patreon message and list, uncomment {{> base/patrons }} in sticky.hbs. Running npm run doc will update to latest patrons.
Fill out data/meta.json
For The Pudding analytics use UA-90567923-1.
Using a Google Doc for copy is recommended. We use ArchieML as a micro CMS.
Setup Google doc
- Create a Google Doc
- Click
Sharebutton -> advanced -> Change... -> to "Anyone with this link" - In the address bar, grab the ID - eg. ...com/document/d/1IiA5a5iCjbjOYvZVgPcjGzMy5PyfCzpPF-LnQdCdFI0/edit
- paste in the ID above into
config.json
Running npm run doc at any point (even in new tab while server is running) will pull down the latest, and output a file data/doc.json.
You can now reference the JSON in your HTML, namespaced by doc (eg. <p>{{doc.explanation}}</p>).
You can also do the same with a Google Sheet.
There is a directory called svg in the root of project, it contains a bunch of icons. To include them in the HTML, simply do this:
<img inline src='arrow-left.svg'>
This way you can drop in svg icons anywhere in your HTML code whilst keeping it uncluttered.
Where it goes: src/js/
Take a look at main.js. This is the kickoff file, the only one included and run automatically.
Then take a look at graphic.js, it has some basic skeleton stuff setup for you. This is imported and called from main.js once on load, and subsequently on a debounced resize event. I recommend putting your code in here. If you want to create more files, I recommending doing that in graphic.js, but remember they won't be executed until you import them.
D3 is included globally by default. For any other libraries, it is recommend that you use npm to install and import them. You can also do it the vanilla way by including them in the src/assets folder and putting a script tag in the HTML.
The JavaScript is transpiled from ES6, and uses Parcel to bundle into a single file. That means each file creates its own closure, so a "global" variable is scoped to a file unless you declare it as window.variable = .....
NPM way:
npm install [name] --save.
Usage: (see library docs, but usually) import [library] from '[library]'
Old school:
Put JS file in the src/assets/scripts directory.
Usage: reference in the index.hbs file <script src='assets/scripts/[name].js'></script>
In the folder src/js/utils there a are a bunch of handy helper JS functions.
dom.js: Super minimial wrapper on basic vanilla dom selection for convenience and cross-browser.is-mobile.js: Device sniffing to detect if on mobile hardware.load-image.js: Async image loading to detect when image completely loaded.locate.js: Estimate user location via ip address.truncate.js: Truncate string with options to break on space and add ellipses.url-parameter.js: Get and set the paremeters of the URL in address bar.lookup-state-name.js: Get state name from state abbrevation.lookup-state-abbr.js: Get state abbrevation from state name.tracker.js: Fire simple GA tracking on events.
NoUISlider is included by default, with some preset pudding styles. To include it, simply include the library in your JS file import noUiSlider from 'nouislider'. Then in src/css/config.styl, uncomment no-ui-slider.styl.
You can pull down a Google Sheet to JSON to include in your JS, or use for templating HTML. Make the sheet sharable, then fill out config.json with the details. By default it will be the file in data/sheet.json which you could use for HTML. You can have it save anywhere by supplying a custom filepath (eg. src/js/example.json or src/assets/data/example.json).
Where it goes: src/css/story/.
There is a file for you to start off with, story.styl. You can create as many files as you want in this directory, they are automatically included.
Checkout some of the auto-included files in src/css/utils/ (variables.styl, helpers.styl, presets.styl). You can modify these, especially variables.styl.
Fonts are loaded async and use the font-display swap CSS setting.
- Tiempos Text (default
bodyfont) - Tiempos Headline (disabled by default)
- National
- National Narrow
- Publico Text (disabled by default)
- Atlas Grotesk (disabled by default)
Available font-weights (bold means it is loaded by default):
- Tiempos Text: 500, 700
- Tiempos Headline: 500
- National: 500, 700
- National Narrow: 200, 500, 700, 900
- Publico: 400, 700
- Atlas: 400, 500, 600
Variable names in stylus (use these for font-family since they contain proper fallbacks):
- Tiempos Text:
$serif - Tiempos Headline
$serif-display - National
$sans - National Narrow
$sans-display
Put everything (images, audio, data, etc) in src/assets/.
When deployed, assets paths will remain relative. However, you'll notice that in index.hbs there is a line like <script src='{{basepath}}assets/scripts/d3.v5.9.1.min.js'></script>. basepath here switches from nothing in local development, to https://pudding.cool/ in production. We have a common assets folder for stuff like (which also occurs with fonts). If you need to use this project for a non-Pudding one, make sure to update the data.basepath variable in scripts/html.js.
Run npm run deploy
This generates a single html file with inlined css, a single js file, and a folder with assets in the dist folder. It also will automatically optimize jpg and png files in the folders assets/social and assets/images.
Run make github (make sure you've enabled github pages in your repo settings to pull from docs).
Requirements:
In Makefile, replace year/month/name with your own (eg. 2017/01/nba). Uncomment code.
Run make pudding to deploy and bust cache. If you only made changes to html/css/js, you can run make aws-htmljs then make aws-cache (it will be much quicker than re-uploading all your assets).
- clean data: reduce filesize bloat by making sure you aren't loading unnecessary columns and rows.
- remove console logs: aesthetics 😄
- enable anayltics: put
UA-90567923-1indata/meta.json - fill out metadata:
data/meta.json - create two social images:
- Facebook: 1200 x 628 (
src/assets/social/social-facebook.jpg) - Twitter: 1024 x 576 (
src/assets/social/social-twitter.jpg)
- Facebook: 1200 x 628 (