Argon Theme for webtrees

A theme for the webtrees online geneology application based on the Argon Dashboard. Since webtrees is templated with Bootstrap, this theme applies Argon styles in the majority of places but adapts where necessary.

Screenshots

Tree Home

Individual Page

Interactive Tree Chart

Compatibility

webtrees 2.1.x (see prior releases for older versions)

Installation

Download the .zip file of the latest release.
Unzip the package.
Ensure the folder is named argon.
Upload the folder into the modules_v4 directory of the webtrees installation on your web server.
Ensure the theme is enabled in your Control panel.

Structure

Because webtrees 2 is built with Bootstrap by default, the majority of this theme is just a matter of applying the Argon stylesheet.

Additionally, there are a handful of opinionated changes, mostly regarding sizing and spacing, requiring some views to be overwritten. Most of these are achieved with a simple replacement function to add/remove/modify classes and elements. Therefore, when a change is introduced in the webtrees codebase, these views should adopt them accordingly unless there is a drastic change to the template.

There are, however, a few cases that require the entire view to be rebuilt/reorganized, due to either a completely different template or a change in the PHP code. These views are:

::layouts/default
::modules/faq/show
::modules/lifespans-chart/chart
::modules/recent_changes/changes-list
::modules/stories/tab

When change is made to these views in the webtrees codebase, it needs to be incorporated in the corresponding Argon view.

Develop and Build

Prerequisites:

Node.js
webtrees

Clone repository

argon-dashboard must be sourced as a Git submodules.

Therefore, you must pass the --recurse-submodules flag when cloning the repository in order for its contents to be populated (under src/resources/scss/argon-dashboard):

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:jchue/argon-webtrees-theme.git

Install dependencies and run in watch mode

webtrees itself is a required dependency, since its base and vendor styles are utilized in the pipeline. First install it as well as its subdependencies:

composer install
npm run vendor

Composer is configured to install webtrees from source, so it should include the required stylesheets.

Then install the theme's Node dependencies and start the webpack watcher:

npm install
npm run dev

To support Sass and ECMAScript, the stylesheets and scripts are developed in their respective directories under src/. When a change is detected, they are compiled/transpiled to resources/, from which webtrees serves the theme. The PHP views themselves are housed directly under the resources/ directory already.

Build and package

npm run build

This will compile/transpile the stylsheets/scripts and package them, along with the PHP views, in a dist/ directory.