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Open Elements Website

This repo contains the website of Open Elements. The website is still work in progress. In future the website will be available at https://www.open-elements.de and https://www.open-elements.com.

Netlify status of English page:

Netlify status of English page

Netlify status of German page:

Netlify status of German page

Building the website

The project is based on Hugo and you need to install Hugo to build the website. Once Hugo is installed you can host the website on localhost by executing to following command from the root folder of the repository:

hugo serve

While the process is running the English (default) version of the website can be reached at http://localhost:1313/ and the German can be reached at http://localhost:1314/.

Adding Tailwind CSS

1-Install Tailwind CSS

Install tailwindcss via npm, and create your tailwind.config.js file in the root folder.

npm install -D tailwindcss
npx tailwindcss init

2-Configure your template paths

Add the paths to all of your template files in your tailwind.config.js file.

content: [
  "content/**/*.md", "layouts/**/*.html"
],

3-Add the Tailwind directives to your CSS

Create 'input.css' file in the root folder and add the @tailwind directives for each of Tailwind’s layers to your input CSS file.

@tailwind base;
@tailwind components;
@tailwind utilities;

4-Code snippet for Package.json

Add the following code in 'Package.json'

  "scripts": {
    "dev:css": "npx tailwindcss -i input.css -o assets/css/style.css -w",
    "dev:hugo": "hugo server",
    "dev": "run-p dev:*",
    "build:css": "NODE_ENV=production npx tailwindcss -i input.css -o assets/css/style.css -m",
    "build:hugo": "hugo",
    "build": "run-s build:*"
  },

5-Dev environment

For development run the following command in terminal.

npm run dev

6-Production

For production ready css, run the following command in terminal.

npm run build