devICT: Help #

This website aims to make it easy to find and act on different ways to be involved with and contribute to the devICT community.

Built with #

• Deno
  • A typescript-first node alternative with a much better developer experience.
• Fresh
  • A server-first react framework (well, preact really).
  • Has tailwind built in (it's really available now in version 1.6).
• Deployed to Deno Deploy.

Developing locally #

• Copy .env.example to .env.
  • Provide a value for config items, instructions below.
• Download dependencies: deno cache dev.ts.
• Run the server: deno task start.
• Open http://localhost:8000.

Configuration #

• APP_GITHUB_TOKEN, required for making GitHub API calls.
  • Generate one from your GitHub settings.
  • Does not need any special permissions, it only accesses public information.

Deployment #

The site is deployed to Deno Deploy. Commits to main are deployed by this github workflow.

To update the APP_GITHUB_TOKEN in Deno Deploy, you must use the UI, as their CLI does not support updating project-level secrets (only providing per-deployment env vars via deployctl deploy --env ...).