harvardurc / website

The website for the Harvard Undergraduate Robotics Club

HURC website

The new HURC website. It's live at www.harvardrobotics.com

Stack

The website is built on a nodeJS backend with ExpressJs routing for backend API calls.

The frontend is built on AngularJS 1, with ES6 classes. Frontend routing is handled by Angular ui-router.

The script files are bundled using Webpack, the style files are minified and bundled usign gulp-minify-css and images are optimized using gulp-imagemin.

Tasks are managed using Gulp.

Running instructions

To run locally,

• Install Node and npm:
  • If you're on a Mac:
    • first install brew by running /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
    • Then install node and npm by running brew install node && brew install npm
  • If you're on Linux:
    • run sudo apt-get install node && sudo apt-get install npm
• Install the gulp cli by running sudo npm install --global gulp-cli
• clone the repository
• run npm install
• run gulp build-images
• run sudo npm start

The site should now be running at http://localhost:80/