Open Source for Good Directory

A directory for freeCodeCamp's Open Source for Good Apps - Solutions for Nonprofits.

Instructions for adding a Non-Profit Project

There are two steps to add an Open Source for Good Project to the directory:

1. Add the file .osfg-dir-config.js to the root of the Project.

   • This will trigger an automatic build of the Project's page inside the directory.

   • Please verify that an update by CamperBot to docs/[project-name] has occurred in the master branch of the directory.

   • Fields:

     • title: Displayed at the top and as the webpage title
     • demoVideo: the YouTube video address
     • liveDemo: the address of the project's homepage
     • description: an ES6 template string that contains GitHub-flavored Markdown. Keep this relatively short - a paragraph tops.
     • body: an ES6 template string with GitHub-flavored Markdown. Please include the open source license, with the freeCodeCamp copyright at the end.
     • If the liveDemo or the demoVideo aren't yet available, you can exclued them. They just won't be added to the project's page.

   • You can see a sample config file at the root of this repository.

2. Edit the file repo-list.json at the root of the directory to include the project.

   • This file will tell the directory app to fetch the corresponding GitHub data and include a card for the project.
   • If you don't yet have permissions to update this repo, please request the edit from one of the project's maintainers.
   • Instructions for the file:
     • Please keep this file alphabetically sorted by repo name
     • Everything should be in lower case. This is critical to our search functionality
     • name: the GitHub repo's name in lower case (without the preceeding freecodecamp/)
     • icon: the Image to be displayed in the project's card. This string contains a Font Awesome icon HTML class.
     • tags: tags will be visible to users who aren't authenticated (we assume these users are people at nonprofits)
     • status: choose between 'dev' and 'prod'. Projects in 'dev' won't be displayed to nonprofits (unauthenticated users).

Please be paitient and while GitHub updates the directory - it will take a few minutes before the changes are reflected.

Installation

Make sure you have installed a recent version of NodeJS and npm.

Open the folder you wish to install the project in using your terminal, and run:

git clone https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/open-source-for-good-directory

cd into the open-source-for-good-directory project that command created, then run npm i to install all the project dependencies.

You'll need symbolic links inside the public folder that point to the corresponding docs/[project-name] directory. The bash script in the root of this repo. We've created a script to automate this process. Make sure the script is executable by running: chmod +x .setup-symlinks.sh. Then run ./.setup-symlinks.sh.

For Windows users wanting to use the script, you'll probably need the Linux Subsystem. We haven't tested this, so if you get this working, let us know how you did so, and we can add those steps to this guide.

This directory is built using Create React App, so you can look for more info there if you run into trouble.

To deploy the directory, run yarn build or npm run build. Then commit the changes to Github.

Server

The directory depends on a remote server to perform an automated webpage build for each project that requires it. The server works in the following way:

1. A Github WebHook registers push events for all the freeCodeCamp repos. It sends a POST request (URL/event) to a server hosted in Glitch.com (Specified on the WebHook configuration)
2. If there is an update to the configuration file .osfg-dir-config.js, it downloads the file and builds an HTML file.
3. The file is pushed to this repo inside the docs folder.
4. Everything inside the docs folder is automatically deployed to GitHub Pages, which in turn are linked to the directory's website.

You can find the code for the server in this repository

License

This computer software is licensed under the open source BSD-3-Clause.

Copyright (c) 2017, freeCodeCamp.