ML-SFU

Update instructions

Just edit files in contents/ and then commit the change, it will automatically deploy in 5 mins.

Add seminar talk

1. Add an item at contents/seminars/seminar.yaml

2. Commit the change directly to the master branch

Add publication

1. Add an item at contents/research/pubs.yaml

2. Add image for publication (optional)

   1. Add image under contents/research/<year>/<venue> to keep images organized
   2. Image path would then be of the form <year>/<venue>/<imageName>

3. Commit the change directly to the master branch

Add news item

1. Add an item at contents/research/news.yaml

   1. Add image under contents/research/<year> to keep images organized
   2. Add information about the news item (e.g. description, image, and url) as appropriate
   3. Specify type: conference for conference news (this will include publications for that conference)

2. If conference news, update publication items (see above) and add entry for workshops (if there are workshops we are organizing / participating in)

3. Commit the change directly to the master branch

Update the carousel

1. Upload the images to contents/carousel

2. Commit the change directly to the master branch

Add/remove a professor/lab

1. Upload the image to contents/people

2. Add an item at contents/people/people.yaml

3. Commit the change directly to the master branch

Update WHY SFU

1. Make change to contents/whysfu.yaml

2. Commit the change directly to the master branch

Local testing

This website is developed using Vue 2.

For local testing you will need to have nodejs.

Use nvm to select a version of node to use. The build has been tested with node v14 to v18.

To download and install node.js v18.20.4:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.5/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install v18.20.4

Build src/assets/data.json from yaml files (not sure why yaml files are not used directly). You will need to have python3 installed.

pip3 install pyyaml                         # Install dependencies
python3 src/assets/parse_content.py         # Parse content

Run local server (may need to switch package.json "webpack-dev-server": "^2.11.2")

npm install              # install node modules            
npm start                # Start server

Go to http://localhost:8080

Tech support

Contact Patrick at me@haoxp.xyz

Updating the Github token

Looks like once in a while the Github gods require us to generate a new token. The basic procedure involves two steps.

1. Generate a new github token
2. Update it on Travis by setting the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable to contain the new token.