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Contents

• Start server
• Start front end
• Edit content
• Creating new pages

Note: To make content changes go straight to Edit content

Start server

To ensure the server works correctly you will need to add service account key in the root directory.

Service account key

Add a file in the /api directory named .env. Then follow these steps

1. Vist google cloud platform landing page
2. Open the sidebar and then click APIs & Services > Credentials
3. Under Service Accounts click the row with the name of Storage admin -bq
4. Click Create key
5. Copy the private key and client email of this json file into the .env file you created earlier. Like so:

PRIVATE_KEY=[insert private key here]
CLIENT_EMAIL=[insert client email here]

Redis

Redis is used to cache requests from google cloud storage. This helps retrieve data quicker and reduces the amount of requests made to google cloud storage. Download redis from the doc site. Mac users may run brew install redis.

First start the redis server on port 6379

$ redis-server --port 6379

Optional: once the server has started, you can use the redis-cli in another terminal window.

$ redis-cli -p 6379

Once this is done run the following commands from the /api directory to start the server:

$ npm i
$ npm run dev

It will start on port 3000 by default.

Adjusting for custom project

The api/gc-config.js file contains paths to cloud storage locations of the buckets and files that are being referenced. The api/src/schema.js file contains custom graphQL data structures for the queries.

Start front end

Once in the observatory-front-end directory run the following commands:

$ export GATSBY_API_URL="http://localhost:3000/api"
$ npm i
$ npm run start

Edit content

All content can be found in the observatory-front-end/content folder. It is contained in markdown files. View the markdown cheatsheet for more information.

Creating new pages

New pages can be with markdown files. For example to create a contact page, follow these steps:

1. In the front-end/content folder, create a new folder called contact-us.
2. In the front-end/content/contact-us folder, create a new file named contact.md
3. Add the following content to the page

---
path: /contact
title: Contact Us
createPage: true
---

# Contact the team

To get into contact with the team, please email at [email protected]

The path attribute is the URL and the title attribute is for the title of the page.

Add page to main navigation/footer navivation

To add links to new pages in the main nav bar or the footer, follow these steps:

1. Open up the front-end/gatsby-config.js file.
2. Find the menuLinks key for main nav links and the footerLinks key for the footer items.
3. If you want to add a main nav link to the contact page we created above, add an object to the menuLinks key.

Before

 menuLinks: [
      {
        text: "Home",
        link: "/",
      },
      {
        text: "About",
        link: "/about",
      },
    ]

After

menuLinks: [
      {
        text: "Home",
        link: "/",
      },
      {
        text: "About",
        link: "/about",
      },
      {
        text: "Contact",
        link: "/contact",
      },
    ],

The footer links can be updated in a similar way using the footerLinks key in the front-end/gatsby-config.js file.