QGIS UC Website

By Tim Sutton and QGIS Contributors.

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🏃Before you start

This web site is a static site built using Hugo.

and using the hugo bulma blocks theme.

🛒 Getting the Code

development

git clone https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-UC-Website.git
cd QGIS-UC-Website

🧑💻 Development

For Nix based development environment, please skip directly to the Nix section.

First install hugo for your local machine:

📝 Note: we need to install the 'extended' hugo version which includes a SASS compiler. If you don't install the extended version you will get errors like this when compiling:

ERROR 2022/12/11 07:33:37 Rebuild failed: TOCSS: failed to transform 
"css/style.scss" (text/x-scss). Check your Hugo installation; you need 
the extended version to build SCSS/SASS.: this feature is not available 
in your current Hugo version, see https://goo.gl/YMrWcn for more information

Currently, the website requires Hugo with a minimum version of v0.139.0. Ensure you have a compatible version installed to avoid any build issues.

You can find the extended version v0.139.0 here.

🐧 Linux:

Download the latest version and then do

sudo dpkg -i hugo_extended_<latest>_linux-amd64.deb

📝 Note: if your system has another version of Hugo, no need to mess up with docker, snap, nix. Just extract the binaries somewhere with dpkg -x . Example, assuming that you use a dedicated directory for your local binaries :

mkdir -p ~/apps/hugo_139/
wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.139.0/hugo_extended_0.139.3_linux-amd64.deb --output-document ~/apps/hugo_128/hugo_extended_0.139.3_linux-amd64.deb 
dpkg -x hugo_extended_0.139.3_linux-amd64.deb
~/apps/hugo_128/usr/local/bin/hugo server  

🪟 Windows

Follow these notes

🍏 macOS:

Follow these notes

Nix

Run the following command on this project root folder:

nix-shell # It will install all the dependecies
hugo server # To run the local server

⚙️ Setting up VSCode

If you are using VSCode, I recommend the following extensions:

• Hugo Language and Syntax Support
• Color Highlight

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-UC-Website.git

Run the site:

Press Ctl-Shift-D then choose the following runner:

'Run dev using locally installed Hugo'

the click the green triangle next to the runner to start it.

Once the site is running, you can open it at:

http://localhost:1313

The site will automatically refresh any page you have open if you edit it and save your work. Magical eh?

Run in other IDEs

Use an appropriate Hugo plugin for your IDE, or run Hugo från the command line:

hugo server

You can then visit the hot-reloaded site in your browser at http://localhost:1313/

Running Playwright End to End (e2e) Tests

Test files are located in playwright/ci-test/tests.

These tests exist to make sure code changes to this repository do not break how the site currently functions. They are intended to run on each commit to verify the site is working in the expected order.

Run tests with VSCode

Requirements: NodeJS v18+

1. Install playwright: If you haven't already installed Playwright, you can do so by running the following commands in playwright/ci-test directory.

cd playwright/ci-test
npm install

2. Install playwright browsers:

npx playwright install --with-deps chromium

3. Install the extension Playwright Test for VSCode: This extension provides a seamless integration of Playwright testing into VSCode.

4. Open the Testing Tab: In VSCode, click on the Testing icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window. This will open the Testing tab.

5. Run Playwright Tests from the Testing Tab:

• In the Testing tab, you should see your Playwright tests listed. If not, ensure the browser is checked under Playwright > Project menu.
• Click on the refresh button in the Testing tab to reload the tests.
• You can run individual tests by clicking the play button next to the test name.
• You can also run all tests by clicking the play button at the top of the Testing tab.

6. Debugging Tests:

• You can debug individual tests by clicking the debug icon (a small bug with a play button) next to the test name.
• Make sure to set breakpoints in your test files before running the debugger.

Run tests with CLI

By default, this will run in headless mode just as it is in CI.

./run-tests.sh

NOTE: To run it in UI mode, add the --ui tag to the script.

$PLAYWRIGHT \
    test \
    --ui \
    --project chromium

Read more on testing here.

Running as github action

There is a github action that will run the tests automatically on PR submission, merge.

See .github/workflows/playwright-e2e.yml

Search Functionality

The search functionality uses both FuseJS and MarkJS.

The search functionality code is based on this Blog Post and GitHub Gist by Eddie Webb.

Content folders need to be excluded from search, by making them headless bundles - which we have done for the sustaining member and flagship user folders in content/. To make other content folders which are not rendered and included in search results, add an index.md file with the following content: headless = true.

Referencing URLs in templates

The site needs to work in production, where the links of the site are all below the root URL, and in staging, where the site is deployed to GitHub pages in a subpath. To ensure both deployment strategies work, please use the following method of constructing URLs in templates.

<a class="button is-primary" href="{{ "donate/" | absURL }}">

Note: We do not use a leading slash, only an ending slash.

Styles (SASS/CSS)

SASS for most components is stored in themes/hugo-bulma-blocks-theme/assets/sass/bulma/components/

Some common styles are places in themes/hugo-bulma-blocks-theme/assets/sass/style.sass - this file is compiled as hugo template, hence has access to config.toml variables and hugo macroses

Also some bulma theme overrides are placed in themes/hugo-bulma-blocks-theme/assets/css/custom.css

📁 File naming conventions

• Separate words in file names with hyphens e.g. windows-download.md
• Avoid abbreviations in the words of your files
• Write file names in lower case only
• No spaces in file names

💮 Changing the templates

Page type	Path
Landing Page	themes/qgis/layouts/index.html
Top Level Pages	themes/qgis/layouts/_default/single.html

🏠 Editing the landing (home) page

The layout of the landing page is themes/hugo-bulma-blocks-theme/layouts/index.html: the main page has many diverse blocks, that are not used anywhere else, hence its content is mostly in the partials.

The content/_index.md contains the front matter of the page and the contents for the feature shortcodes. Just edit whatever you like there. The blocks shortcodes are described here

📃 Adding a top level page

Create the content

Content pages are stored in the content folder. The top level documents there will be rendered with the top level page theming.

For example to add an about page, create content/about.md

The page will be accessible then at /about/

🖼️ Referencing Images and Media

Place images and media in static/img. Everything in static is referenced from the top level of the site e.g. static/img/foo.png would be referenced in markdown as /img/foo.png.

📦 Blocks Shortcodes

The site uses a number of shortcodes to create reusable blocks of content. These are defined in the themes/hugo-bulma-blocks-theme/layouts/shortcodes/ folder.

The shortcodes with screenshots are described here

Reusable header web component

TODO

Sidebar

Sidebar is implemented in themes/hugo-bulma-blocks-theme/layouts/partials/sidebar.html

Items are retrieved from config.toml under [menu] section. weight parameter defines the order of the item.

To enable sidebar on the content page, use the following template:

---
type: "page"
...
sidebar: true
---
{{< content-start  >}}

... add content here ...

{{< content-end  >}}