Crisis Info Hub

Crisis Info Hub is a super lightweight content management system, based on Google Docs.

Crisis Info Hub provides a templatized Google Doc, customizable to allow organizations and individuals to disseminate crisis-relevant information in a low-bandwidth way. A published version of this Google Doc is served through a Google App Engine instance, which provides additional functionality including translation and analytics. Example

Learning more about Crisis Info Hub

• See the Crisis Info Hub introduction deck to see design highlights and a more complete overview of the product.

Creating a Crisis Info Hub Instance

• Follow the Playbook to create your own Crisis Info Hub instance.

Contributing to Crisis Info Hub

• Follow CONTRIBUTING to learn more about the development process.

Note: This is not an official Google product.

Prerequisites

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These instructions have been tested with the following software:

• node.js >= 0.8.0
  • 0.8.0 is the minimum required to build with Grunt.
• git
• curl

An alternative to the Grunt build is provided via the util.sh shell script.

Dependency Setup

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1. pushd .
2. mkdir $HOME/bin; cd $HOME/bin
3. npm install grunt-cli
   • Alternatively, sudo npm install -g grunt-cli will install system-wide and you may skip the next step.
4. export PATH=$HOME/bin/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin:$PATH
   • It is advisable to add this to login profile scripts (.bashrc, etc.).
5. Visit https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads, copy URL of “Linux/Other Platforms” zip file for current AppEngine SDK. Do this regardless of whether you are on Linux or OS X.
6. curl -O <url on clipboard>
7. unzip google_appengine_*.zip
8. mkdir google_closure; cd google_closure
9. curl -O https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.zip
10. unzip compiler-latest.zip; cd ..
11. mkdir google_closure_templates; cd google_closure_templates
12. curl -O https://dl.google.com/closure-templates/closure-templates-for-javascript-latest.zip
13. unzip closure-templates-for-javascript-latest.zip
14. popd

To install dependencies for unit testing:

1. sudo easy_install pip
2. sudo pip install unittest2

Configuration Setup

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You need to provied some required information

• App Engine ID (edit the file config.json)
• Google Docs embed links (edit the file js/app.js)

Scaffold Setup

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These instructions assume a working directory of the repository root.

Dependencies

All users should run:

1. git submodule init
2. git submodule update

Grunt users should also run:

npm install

Local Development

To run the development appserver locally:

1. grunt clean
2. grunt
3. grunt appengine:run:app

If you are not using Grunt, simply run:

util.sh -d

Deployment

To deploy to AppEngine:

1. grunt clean
2. grunt --appid=<appid>
3. grunt appengine:update:app --appid=<appid>

Specifying --appid= will override any value set in config.json. You may modify the config.json file to avoid having to pass this parameter on every invocation.

If you are not using Grunt, simply run:

util.sh -p <appid>

Detailed Dependency Information

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• The AppEngine SDK should be present in the directory:

  $HOME/bin/google_appengine/

You can find / download this at: https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads

• (Optional, if using Google Closure): The Google Closure Compiler (and a suitable Java runtime), located at:

  $HOME/bin/google_closure/

You can find / download this at: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler

You will need all the files from this archive in the above directory: compiler-latest.zip

The compiler is invoked with the default namespace of ‘app.’ The compiled Javascript is written to out/static/app.js.

You will also need the Closure Library (in the closure-library submodule of this repository).

You can find more on the Closure Library here: https://github.com/google/closure-library

To use it, you will need to check out the code as a submodule by running the following commands from the base directory of this repository:

git submodule add <https://github.com/google/closure-library/> closure-library

git commit -m "Initial import of Closure Library"

• (Optional, if using Closure Templates): The Closure Template compiler (in addition to the Closure Compiler), located at:

  $HOME/bin/google_closure_templates

You can find / download Closure Templates at: https://github.com/google/closure-templates

You will need all the files from this archive in the above directory: closure-templates-for-javascript-latest.zip

You can build this using the ant target “zips-for-release”, or download a prebuilt version (the URL is in the Dependency Setup section).

The deployment script checks for the presence of .soy files in templates/soy. If found, they are compiled to a single Javascript file using the SoyToJsSrcCompiler.jar in the previously mentioned directory. The resulting Javascript file is stored in static/app.soy.js, alongside the soyutils.js library provided with the Closure Templates bundle that is necessary to include on any page you plan to use Closure Templates.