OpenAtlas Discovery

OpenAtlas Discovery is a presentation website for OpenAtlas projects.

A demo website is deplyed at https://openatlas-discovery-demo.acdh-ch-dev.oeaw.ac.at.

Content management (CMS)

The website comes with a content management system, which is deployed at /admin and commits all content changes to the website repository on GitHub. All content is stored in plain text (markdown or json), and can also be edited directly with your favourite text editor.

• "Config" collection: Main configuration file for the website. Allows setting default locale, brand colors, logos. Saves to project.config.json.
• "Metadata" collection: Project metadata which needs translation in all suppoted languages. Saves to messages/:locale/project.json.
• "Pages" collection: Custom content pages. Saves to content/pages/*.md.
• "System pages" collection: Default pages, which cannot be deleted. Saves to content/system-pages/*.md.
• "Team" collection: Team members. Saves to content/team/*.md.

When developing locally, you can run a development CMS server with:

pnpm run dev:cms

This server will not commit content changes to GitHub, but write to the local filesystem instead.

Development

Pre-requisites

• Node.js v20
• pnpm

Environment variables

Set required environment variables in .env.local. Start by copying the template file:

cp .env.local.example .env.local

Environment variables:

• NUXT_PUBLIC_APP_BASE_URL: Should point to the URL where the website is deployed. Used for setting <link rel="canonical">.

• NUXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE_URL: Should point to the OpenAtlas backend API used by this website.

• NUXT_PUBLIC_OPENAPI_BASE_URL: Should point to the OpenAtlas backend's OpenAPI schema.

• NUXT_PUBLIC_DATABASE: Whether the configured OpenAtlas backend is ready, and links to the /database and /maps pages should be added to the website. Allowed values are: "enabled" or "disabled".

• NUXT_PUBLIC_MAP_BASELAYER_URL_LIGHT and NUXT_PUBLIC_MAP_BASELAYER_URL_DARK: The map base layer used on the "/maps" page, in "light" and "dark" mode. Defaults to an OpenStreetMap map.

• NUXT_PUBLIC_MAP_BASELAYER_ATTRIBUTION: Attribution text for the above map.

• NUXT_PUBLIC_MATOMO_BASE_URL and NUXT_PUBLIC_MATOMO_ID: When using matomo for website analytics, set the base URL and property id (optional).

• NUXT_PUBLIC_BOTS: Set this to "enabled" to allow web crawlers like the Google bot to index this website.

• NUXT_PUBLIC_REDMINE_ID: Needed when using the ACDH-CH imprint service for the imprint page.

Install dependencies

pnpm install

Development server

Run a development server at http://localhost:3000:

pnpm run dev

Authentication

The CMS allows signing in with a GitHub account via OAuth.

In local development, this is optional: you can run a CMS proxy server, which commits content to the local filesystem, instead of GitHub, and requires no authentication.

pnpm run dev:cms

To properly configure OAuth, create a "GitHub OAuth App" at https://github.com/settings/developers, and set these environment variables:

• OAUTH_ALLOWED_ORIGIN: Should point the the URL where the website is deployed. Used by the CMS for authentication.
• OAUTH_REDIRECT_URL: Should point to the "Authorization callback URL" configured in the "GitHub OAuth App". Usually this should point to the /api/oauth/callback path on OAUTH_ALLOWED_ORIGIN.
• OAUTH_CLIENT_ID and OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET: The GitHub client id and client secret from the newly created "GitHub OAuth App".

Deployment

The website is deployed via GitHub action.

Or it can be deployed manually:

As a (currently semi, as data is still being fetched from the API) static website:

pnpm run generate

At the moment this will be stuck after the nuxt generate step for about 15 minutes, despite having finished generating successfully. So alternatively you can run the following command to generate the static files:

pnpm run generate:server

Once it says ✔ You can now deploy .output/public to any static hosting! you can stop the process.

Then, run the following command to generate the index.html to fix the current issue of the index page not being generated when using nuxt/i18n:

pnpm run generate:reroute-index

Now you can deploy the static files to a web server. The generated files are in the .output/public/ directory.

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As a node.js server:

pnpm run build
pnpm start

Issues

To report bugs, or request new features, file an issue on our Redmine instance.

License

All code unless otherwise noted is licensed under the terms of the MIT License (MIT). Please refer to the file LICENSE in the root directory of this repository.

All documentation and images unless otherwise noted are licensed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.