The Pudding Website

Publishing a new story

• Always pull the repo first to make sure you are up to date
• Fill out the new story in the stories doc
• Make sure the author is in the authors doc
• Add the thumbnail image (1920x1080) to the thumbnails/stories directory
• Run npm run update
• Commit new changes to repo
• Run make pudding
• git push

Content

Copy + Data

Each page has a copy doc in our website folder on Google Drive.

• Home
• About
• Pitch
• Resources
• Privacy

Additionally, there is a misc copy doc for a few items that can appear in multiple places.

Stories

• There is a Google Sheet for all story data.
• Fill out home_text to populate the intro letter copy (keep it to a few words). Fill out home_pick with a staff's slug (each staff should have six selections).

Authors There is a Google Sheet for all author data.

Tasks

• Generating thumbnail images
  • Resize and optimize
  • Extracting color palette
• Fetching copy
• Generating project footer stories data

Feature and Design Development

Routes

• Endpoints
• Metadata
• Components
• Dynamic pages (authors)

Development

This starter template aims for fast and easy web development speficially for data-driven and visual stories. It is an opinionated template built on top of SvelteKit.

Please Note: do not use or reproduce The Pudding logos or fonts without written permission.

Prettier Formatting: Disable any text editor Prettier extensions to take advantage of the built-in rules.

Features

• Feather Icons for simple/easy svg icons
• ArchieML for micro-CMS powered by Google Docs and Sheets
• LayerCake enabled by default for chart making
• Style Dictionary for CSS/JS style parity
• Includes csv, json, and svg imports by default
• Static-hosted builds by default

Quickstart

New school: just click the Use this template button above.

Old school:

npx degit the-pudding/svelte-starter my-project

Then in your local repo:

npm install

Development

To start the dev server:

npm run dev

Modify content in src and static/assets.

Deploy

npm run build

This generates a directory called build with the server-side rendered static-hostable app.

If deploying to github pages:

make github

Style

There are a few stylesheets included by default in src/styles. Put anything global in app.css. For variable parity in both CSS and JS, modify files in the properties folder using the Style Dictionary API.

You can use SCSS or another CSS preprocessor by installing the module (eg. node-sass) and including the property in the svelte-preprocess in svelte.config.js.

Google Docs and Sheets

• Create a Google Doc or Sheet
• Click Share button -> advanced -> Change... -> to "Anyone with this link"
• In the address bar, grab the ID - eg. ...com/document/d/1IiA5a5iCjbjOYvZVgPcjGzMy5PyfCzpPF-LnQdCdFI0/edit
• paste in the ID above into google.config.js, and set the filepath to where you want the file saved
• If you want to do a Google Sheet, be sure to include the gid value in the url as well

Running npm run gdoc at any point (even in new tab while server is running) will fetch the latest from all Docs and Sheets.

Pre-loaded helpers

Components

Located in src/lib/components.

• Footer.svelte: Pudding recirculation and social links.
• Header.svelte: Pudding logo.

Helper Components

Located in src/lib/components/helpers.

• Icon.svelte: Simple integration with Feather Icons.
• Slider.svelte (and Slider.Slide.svelte): A slider widget, especially useful for swipe/slide stories.
• Scrolly.svelte: Scrollytelling
• Tap.svelte: Edge-of-screen tapping library, designed to integrate with slider.
• ButtonSet.svelte: Accessible button group inputs
• Toggle.svelte: Accessible toggle inputs
• Range.svelte: Customizable range slider

Actions

Located in src/lib/actions.

• inView.js: detect when an element enters or exits the viewport.
• css.js: dynmically change the value of a CSS variable.

Utils

Located in src/lib/utils/.

• mapToArray.js: Convenience function to convert maps (generated from d3 group and rollup) to iterable array of objects.
• move.js: transform translate function shorthand.

Stores

These are located in src/lib/stores. You can put custom ones in src/lib/stores/misc.js or create unique files for more complex ones. To include them do this (replacing name):

import name from "$stores/name.js";

• mq: returns an object of media queries booleans if they are enabled or not. You can modify them in the js file.

• viewport: returns an object { width, height } of the viewport dimensions. It is debounced for performance.

• scrollY: returns an number window vertical scroll position. It is throttled using rAF for performance.

• timer: returns an object { timer, elapsed }. timer has 5 methods (start, stop, toggle, set, reset) and elapsed is a store that is the number of ms.

Utils

checkOverlap.js: Label overlapping detection. Loops through selection of nodes and adds a class to the ones that are overlapping. Once one is hidden it ignores it.

csvDownload.js: Converts a flat array of data to CSV content ready to be used as an href value for download.

loadImage.js: Loads an image.

loadPixels.js: Loads the pixel data of an image via an offscreen canvas.

mapToArray.js: Convenience function to convert a map to an array.

translate.js: Convenience function for transform translate css.

transformSvg.js: Custom transition lets you apply an svg transform property with the in/out svelte transition. Parameters (with defaults):

urlParams.js: Get and set url parameters.

Usage

<g out:transformSvg={{ target: "translate(50, 50)" }}>

Notes

Any @html tags, e.g., {@html user} must be the child of a dom element so they can be properly hydrated.