mitmedialab / privacy-matters

👀 Privacy Matters

👀 Privacy Matters

Check out the site at https://letstalkprivacy.media.mit.edu/.

Installation

Privacy Matters is a static site built using Gatsby.

If you haven't already, install Node Version Manager.

Install and use version node version 12.14.1:

$ nvm install 12.14.1
$ nvm use 12.14.1

Install requirements:

$ npm install

Develop

gatsby develop

Your site is now running at http://localhost:8000.

Editing Content

About page and quotes are sourced from markdown files. Check out this markdown cheatsheet for syntax.

Policy Content

Policy about page content is stored in src/markdown-pages. Edit the corresponding file to change the about page content.

Quotes

Policy quotes are stored in src/markdown-pages/quotes. Update the quote by changing the corresponding file or adding a file.

The frontmatter fields and corresponding values are:

Field	Description
quotee	Person to credit, e.g. Jane Doe, Engineer
policy	One of the following: COPRA, SMART, ONLINE_PRIVACY
responseType	One of the following: pro, con, highlight

Quotes will be displayed on the policy's page.

Deploy

To test out your production build of the site (a good thing to do before deploy), the following to build the production page and serve it using a local production-like server:

gatsby build
gatsby serve

When you're ready to deploy the site run the following:

npm run deploy

This runs the static build script and pushes to the gh-pages branch. This is the branch Github Pages are viewed from.