How to setup your Laptop
You'll need to install and setup the following software before you can make changes to the Website.
Download and install VS Code
All the files in this repository are simple text files. You can use any text editor program you want to change these files. But, we suggest you use VS Code, which is a editor program built specficially to edit source code text files.
See our Guide to setup VS Code here
Download files using VS Code and git
Once you have VS Code installed, the next step is to download this website's source code files your computer and then open these files inside your editor.
When you download all files from a github repository to your own computer using git, that's called cloning a repository.
It's possible to use git by itself (outside of VS Code), but we can also use git right from inside VS Code which is a little easier.
The first time you open VS Code, you'll see a page like the image below. Click on Clone Git Repository as shown here:
There are many repositories on github. Here's the url for our team's website's git repository:
https://github.com/Fahrenheit6882/Fahrenheit6882.github.io.git
Copy and paste that link into VS Code like this:
Our Github Repository is private. Please let a mentor know if you need access.
The next step is to choose which folder on your computer to download the files into. I created a folder named website. You can create whatever folder that you want. After you create and choose the folder where you want to save the files, click Select as Repository Destination.
Click the buttons to say that you trust this code, and that's it! You now have the code for our website open in VS Code.
Setup Node.js
We use a software library called docusaurus to help build our site. docusaurus is written in a programming language called javascript.
Follow this guide here to setup your computer to run javascript.