Inclusive Design Research Centre

Website for the Inclusive Design Research Centre.

Getting Started

To work on the project, you need to:

• Install NodeJS and NPM for your operating system
• Clone the project from GitHub. Create a fork with your GitHub account, then run the following in your command line (make sure to replace your-username with your username):

git clone https://github.com/your-username/idrc
cd idrc
npm install

How to Build

To build and serve a static version of the website, enter the following in your command line:

npm run build
npx serve _site

The website will be available at http://localhost:3000.

How to Start a Server for Development

To start the server in the development mode, enter the following in your command line:

npm start

The website will be available at http://localhost:8080.

When the server runs in a development mode, changes to the source code will automatically trigger the server to rebuild.

How to Lint and Run Tests

To lint, enter the following in your command line:

npm run lint

To run tests, enter the following in your command line:

npm test

How to Deploy using Docker

This website can also be served with Docker container.

Once you have Docker installed, run the following commands to build a Docker image and start a container:

• Build the image: docker build -t idrc .
• Run the container: docker run --name idrc -p 8000:80 idrc

The website will be available at http://localhost:8000

• To stop and remove the container: docker rm -f idrc

If you make changes to the code, repeat the steps to build the image and start a new container.

Release Process

Changelogs and releases are handled by release-please. We use a modified versioning scheme based on calendar versioning in the form YYYY.MM.MICRO (where MICRO, the third and final number in the version, indicates a patch, starting at 0 within each month's sequence of releases).

Prior to release, commit and push a single commit to bump the version appropriately:

git commit --allow-empty -m "chore: prepare release

Release-As: 2026.4.2"

(In this example, that would be the third release for April 2026 for a given package.)

Once that commit is in the version history, release-please will update the release pull request to the new version and it can be merged.