National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion

The source for nabpr.org, built with Build Awesome.

Local development

npm install
npm run dev

The development site is served at http://localhost:8080. The equivalent direct command is:

npx @awesome.me/buildawesome --serve

For a production build and its integrity check:

npm run build
npm run check

Every build — build and dev alike — ends by running Pagefind from eleventy.config.js, which indexes _site/ into _site/pagefind/, so site search works locally too. A full build takes about two seconds.

Layout

• src/ — everything Eleventy builds: posts/, pages/, blog/, root templates (feeds, sitemap, robots), _includes/layouts/ and _includes/partials/, and the passthrough assets/, images/, pdfs/, wp-content/.
• _data/ — site data (navigation, footer columns, socials, authors, bots).
• scripts/ — check-build.mjs, the post-build integrity check.
• docs/ — design system and how-tos.

New posts go in src/posts/ as YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md; the URL is /slug/.

Deploying

GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/pages.yml) builds, checks, and deploys _site/ to GitHub Pages on every push to master. The custom domain is set in the repository's Pages settings.

Redirects are built as HTML stub pages from redirect_from front matter and the EXTRA_REDIRECTS list in eleventy.config.js, so they work on any static host.

Fediverse

The site is marked up for Bridgy Fed: a representative h-card on the home page, h-entry on every post with a u-bridgy-fed opt-in link, and rel="me" links to the association's profiles. Signing up at fed.brid.gy is the remaining step. GitHub Pages cannot redirect /.well-known/webfinger, so the account is @nabpr.org@web.brid.gy.

Design

The current visual direction is documented in docs/design.md: a newspaper masthead over a filterable ledger of the association's record, set in Fraunces and Newsreader, with a light and dark theme the reader can toggle. It keeps the editorial character of Feeling Responsive while replacing its Jekyll/Foundation runtime with a small Build Awesome project and native CSS.

To update the header's primary navigation, see docs/navigation.md.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.