Sheep-Sorrel

A Pollen-inspired book-generator in JS

Installation/Quickstart

• git clone
• npm i the dependencies
• ./setup.sh to quickstart src/content
• npm start or gulp to compile src to dist

Entry Point Summary

Writing

Set the book title in the directory.title variable in gulpfile.js.

Place content in src/content. Number folders (1. *title*, 2. *title*, etc.). These *title*s will become the chapter names.

Hope gulp takes care of your folders in the order specified. Currently only supports Markdown.

Will throw an error if Markdown files are more than 1 folder deep in src/content. This means src/content/folder-1/okay.md works, but src/content/folder-1/oh-no/help.md won’t. This is intentional.

The top of each Markdown file must start with

---
prev: {the previous page}
next: {the next page}
chapter: {the chapter-top page}
title: {your title}
summary: {a summary of your content}
---
your content here

otherwise the footer will not work as expected.

Styling

Don’t like the default styles? Modify src/styles/_user.scss. Available options:

• font
• sans and sans-serif font stacks
• background, text, accent, and border colors
• CSS breakpoints

You may also opt to modify src/views/partials/{header,footer}.hbs to add your own custom headers/footers to pages, respectively.

Images

Place a cover image at src/content/index.jpg. Responsive images coming soon.

Testing

Testing is done with cypress (and automated with Travis). setup.sh sets up some source Markdown files and a cover image, and we test the end results. Use npm test for automated testing (Travis, etc.), or npm run test-active to view the Cypress console (local debugging, for example).

Things to test:

• moving between pages
• moving to top/chapter pages
• has a cover image
• has the correct fonts

If you change the fonts in _user.scss, be sure to update the corresponding variables in the test files.

Deployment

Deploy the dist folder to a static provider of your choice (my favorite is surge.sh).