This website is deployed here.
For development, you only need Node.js installed on your machine. npm is the package manager and it comes with Node. The actual server is an npm package called Express.
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Node: https://nodejs.org/en/
If the installation was successful, you should be able to run the following commands:
$ node --version
$ npm --version
$ git clone https://github.com/smcalilly/mississippi-covid.git
$ cd mississippi-covid
$ npm install
You can run the project with this command, and the server will restart whenever you make any changes:
$ npm run dev
Let me know if you have any troubles, because I've never walked anybody through from scratch.
The UI templating engine is called Handlebars: https://www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars. (Need to fix a security warning for a dependency.)
The file extension is .hbs but it's html with the handlebars syntax for rendering. Those files are served by Express. The files are in the views directory.
The main html pages are in pages and partials are in partials.
The variables for handlebars come from app.js. The .hbs file name matches the routes setup in the routes/index.js. If you see anything that might need a variable but you aren't sure or can't figure out how to do it, let me know and I'll adjust.
Any resources that are sent to the client -- like css, client javascript, or images -- are available in the public directory.
If you make any changes to the public folder, you might need to hard refresh in your browser to reset the cache: shift + cmd + r.