amazingturtle / website

Front- and Backend for the savetheinternet website

SaveTheInternet

Save the Internet with us

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📌 About

On 20 June, the European Parliament will vote on the Copyright Directive.
Members of the parliament are the only ones that can stand in the way of bad copyright legislation.

Note: This is a NodeJS revamp of the old website

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💻 Website

Deployment:

https://savetheinternet.info

Staging (dev branch):

http://best-universe.de

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🔧 Used technologies / Libraries / Frameworks

Frontend:

• JQuery 3.3.1
• Tailwind CSS

Backend:

• NodeJS v8.11.2
• TypeScript
• ExpressJS v4.16.3
• EJS v2.6.1
• server favicon v2.5.0
• i18n v0.8.3
• cookie-parser v1.4.3

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📈 Local testing

This site is written in NodeJS and was built on top of the ExpressJS Framework.
Current deployment platform specifications:

• NodeJS Version: v8.11.1
• Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
• Architecture: x86_64

NodeJS Dependencies:

package name	used version
ExpressJS	4.16.3
EJS	2.6.1
serve-favicon	2.5.0
i18n	0.8.3
cookie-parser	1.4.3

Installation & Quick setup:

0. Open up your favourite terminal (and navigate somewhere you want to download the repository to)
   
   
1. Make sure you have nodejs installed. Test by entering
   $ node -v
   If this returns a version number, NodeJS is installed. If not, get NodeJS here.
   
   
2. Clone the repository and navigate to it.
   $ git clone https://github.com/savetheinternetinfo/website.git && cd website
   
   
3. Run the post setup script to install typescript:
   $ npm run postsetup
   
   
4. Install all dependencies by typing
   $ npm install
   
   

Or use Docker:

1. Install Docker and docker-compose
2. Clone the repository and navigate to it.
   $ git clone https://github.com/savetheinternetinfo/website.git && cd website
   
   
3. Then run docker-compose run --rm npm i && npm run build this builds the container and the sources
   
4. After that run docker-compose up this starts the docker container with the comiled sources
   
   

Developing & Building:

Build and run a local instance:
$ npm run dev

Build only:
$ npm run build

Start only:
$ npm start

Run file watcher for automatic builds:
$ npm run watch

Info:

Per default, the server runs on port 3000 (http://localhost:3000).
This can be customized in the config.ts file.

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Roadmap

• //TODO

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