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Developer Guide

Running this site on your own machine to work on it. Deploying a copy instead? See the Install Guide.

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Requirements

  • Python 3 (any recent version — only the standard library is used)
  • Git, to clone the repo

No build tooling, no dependencies to install for the site itself — this is a plain HTML/CSS/JS site. (The tests/ folder uses Node's built-in test runner if you're working on changelogs.js/profiles.js/versions.js/releases.js — node --test, no install needed there either.)

1. Clone alongside the sibling repos

dev-server.py reads Engine/Profiles content from sibling checkouts next to this one, so local edits show up here without pushing first:

git clone https://github.com/TIGHC/Engine.git
git clone https://github.com/TIGHC/Profiles.git
git clone https://github.com/TIGHC/Website.git
cd Website
Projects/
  Engine/
  Profiles/
  Website/   <- run dev-server.py from here

Only cloning Website still works — versions.js/changelogs.js/profiles.js just fall back to fetching from GitHub for anything that doesn't have a local sibling.

2. Run the dev server

./dev-server.sh [port]        # macOS/Linux
dev-server.bat [port]         # Windows

Defaults to port 8000. This serves the site the way GitHub Pages does and forces dev mode on by default, which writes dev-config.js (gitignored, never deployed) so profiles.js/changelogs.js/versions.js load Engine/Profiles/Website content from ../Engine and ../Profiles instead of GitHub, and reveals an amber "Development Mode" banner at the top of every page so it's never ambiguous whether you're looking at the local build or the live site.

  • --no-dev-mode — fetch from GitHub instead, matching production, to test production behavior locally

Prefer a plain static server with no dev-mode behavior? python -m http.server 8000 works too — version/ changelog/profile content will just always come from GitHub, same as production.

3. Verify it's working

  • Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 — you should see the amber "Development Mode" banner across the top of the page, and the same info as a console log: [TIGHC dev mode] Engine/Profiles/Website content is loaded from local sibling checkouts, not GitHub.
  • Visit /engine.html — the version badge should match your local ../Engine/VERSION.md, not whatever's currently on GitHub.
  • Visit /profiles.html — should list the folders in your local ../Profiles checkout.

Troubleshooting

  • "Python 3 is required to run dev-server.py". Install Python 3, make sure python3 (or python) is on PATH.
  • Engine/Profiles content 404s or falls back to GitHub. ../Engine or ../Profiles isn't checked out next to Website/ — the server logs a note at startup naming which one's missing.
  • Version badges don't match your local Engine/ Profiles/Website checkouts. Make sure dev-config.js exists (dev mode is on) and hard-refresh — versions.js fetches VERSION.md fresh each load, no caching involved.
  • dev-server.bat fails with "The system cannot find the batch label specified". The .bat file has LF-only line endings instead of CRLF (breaks cmd.exe's GOTO/label parser) — re-save it with CRLF, e.g. unix2dos dev-server.bat, or re-clone.