jotace / emergency-site-001

Emergency Site Template

A boilerplate for emergency information websites. (WIP) (Demo Site)

In case of emergency, many organizations need a quick way to publish critical information. Exisiting CMS websites are often unable to handle sudden spikes in traffic, and local infrastructure might be damaged, leaving people with poor mobile connections.

This project aims to enable developers to quickly publish a simple website that can withstand large amounts of traffic and will work even under extreme conditions. It is built on the rule of least power, using simple technologies for maximum resilience.

Features

• Static Files generated by Eleventy
• Optimized for first Roundtrip (> 14KB)
• Basic Styling for Accessibility
• One Request, Inlined CSS
• Netlify CMS for collaborative Content Editing
• Offline Support with Service Worker

Getting Started

The easiest way to get started is by forking this repo and deploying it to Netlify. You can do that by clicking this button:

To customize the site, edit src/data/meta.json with your details, and replace the markdown files in src/posts with your content.

Installation

To run this locally, you need to install Node first.

available commands:

• npm start: start development server
• npm run build: generate a production build
• npm run debug: run eleventy with debug output