Icons-Experiment

This repo is an investigation to figure out what the "best" solution is for Redfin to serve its icons. To see a more formal definition of best, see the blog post on the Redfin Blog.

Installation

  1. Install the toolchain -- see step 1 under Method for specific installation instructions.

  2. Create a folder for the project, and clone the repo: mkdir ~/code/icons-experiment cd ~/code/icons-experiment git clone https://github.com/Redfin/IconsExperiment.git

  3. Generate the pngs -- see step 6 under Method for instructions

  4. Build the assets gulp

  5. Start the server node index.js

  6. View the experiments in your browser # Also, open -a "Firefox"; open -a "Chome"; open for your default browser open -a "Chromium" "http://localhost:3000"

  7. Rebuild the changes gulp clean gulp

Find out more

See the Redfin blog