Create a conda environment and install node.js v6 and git

• M1 macs

CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64 conda create -n node6 python
conda activate node6
conda env config vars set CONDA_SUBDIR=osx-64
conda deactivate node6
conda activate node6

• Other platform

# omit git if it's already installed globally
conda create -n node6 -c conda-forge nodejs=6 git
conda activate node6

Clone repo from github and change directory into ./symposium-2022/client

git clone https://github.com/btbatw/symposium-2022.git
cd symposium-2022/client
npm install
npm install -g @angular/[email protected]

Serve locally during development

# in .../symposium-2022/client directory
ng serve

Build for production

# set --base-href based on the site structure
# in the following example, the symposium site lives under
# https://main-site.org/2020

# in .../symposium-2022/client directory
ng build --prod --output-path 2020  --base-href /2020/

# for local repo freshedly cloned and has submodule
git submodule update --init

Use github pages to serve the website branch

1. create website branch on github
2. configure github pages pointing to root of the website branch

# in .../tba-symposium/client directory
git submodule add -b website https://github.com/btbatw/symposium-2022.git website
ng build --prod --output-path website  --base-href /2022/


# make changes and update submodule and main git repo by referencing to
# https://www.activestate.com/blog/getting-git-submodule-track-branch/