furstblumier / glam

A hugo theme for the balance

Glam

Glam is a theme for The Balance website put together by the wonderful FFXIV community

Getting started on Windows

Tools Required

• git
  1. Accept all the default options except for the following option.
  2. Check the Enable symbolic links box when presented the option.
• nodejs
  1. Choose the latest LTS release listed.
  2. Accept all default options.
• hugo (Optionally, you can install hugo via a package manager if desired.)
  1. Choose hugo__extended_X.XXX.X_Windows-64bit.zip where the X's are the current version (Latest tested with 0.119.0).
  2. Extract the .zip to a location of your choosing (Documents is reasonable choice).
  3. Open the extracted folder and right click on hugo.exe and select properties.
  4. Check the Unblock box near the bottom and press Ok.

How to build the project

1. These steps only need to be done once.
2. Add hugo.exe to PATH.
   1. Open the Start menu, search for environment, and choose Edit the system environment variables to open a dialogue.
   2. Click the Environment Variables box near the bottom.
   3. Select the Path line in the first box and hit Edit.
   4. Press the New button and input the path to the folder you extracted (i.e C:/Users/UserName/Documents/hugo) and hit the Enter key.
   5. Select Ok to close all the dialogue boxes.
3. Clone the git repository.
   1. Open a command prompt in the location you want the repository to be placed (You can Shift+Right Click in a folder and choose the Open Powershell window option).
   2. Run git clone https://github.com/The-Balance-FFXIV/glam.git to clone the repository.
4. Navigate into the repository: cd glam/.
5. Run yarn to setup the necessary environment.

How to run the project

1. Navigate to your project folder in a command prompt or Powershell window.
2. Run yarn start:dev.
3. Navigate to localhost:1313 in a web browser to view the local version of the website.

Testing the theme locally

Make sure you have hugo installed. Either drop hugo.exe in the project's root folder or add it to your PATH.

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/The-Balance-FFXIV/glam.git

# Navigate into it
cd ./glam/

# Install project dependencies and dependencies. If you prefer to not edit PATH, you can install globally.
export PATH=$PATH:${PWD}/node_modules/.bin
yarn

# Run the servers
yarn start:dev

# Server starts by default on `localhost:1313`

Configuration

[params] section

Key Name	Type	Description
maxTierGearsets	int	Maximum number of 'tier' gearsets to display on a job landing page
maxUltimateGearsets	int	Maximum number of 'ultimate' gearsets to display on a job landing page
maxGearsets	int	Maximum number of gearsets to display, total
discord	string	Discord join url (without any leading https://)
description	string	Description for the site
copyrightMessage	string	Copyright string to display on the bottom of the site

Notes

• the [menu] section must contain at least one [[menu.header]] and [[menu.footer]] section:

[menu]
  [[menu.header]]
    identifier = 'Encounters'
    url = '/encounters/'
    weight = 20
  [[menu.footer]]
    identifier = 'Encounters'
    url = '/encounters'
    weight = 20