SCCN Site 2 — "Clean Institutional"

Data-driven rebuild of the SCCN website: content lives in src/data/*.json, scripts/build_site.py generates a fully static dist/ (pages, redirect stubs, search-index.json), and public/ is copied through verbatim (legacy mirror, images, fonts).

Build and preview

npm run build      # python3 scripts/build_site.py  → dist/
npm run preview    # python3 scripts/serve.py 8173  → http://127.0.0.1:8173/sccn_site2/
npm run check-links 

Publish the contents of dist/ — it is self-contained (redirects are meta-refresh stubs, no server logic required). The repository includes .github/workflows/pages.yml, which builds dist/ and deploys that directory as the GitHub Pages artifact.

For GitHub Pages, set Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Source to GitHub Actions. If the source is left as "Deploy from a branch / root", GitHub Pages will render this README instead of the generated site.

GitHub Pages URL prefix

The site is published as a GitHub Pages project site (https://arnodelorme.github.io/sccn_site2/), so the build bakes the /sccn_site2 prefix into every root-absolute href/src/action and meta-refresh redirect in dist/.

• The prefix lives in .baseurl (one line, next to package.json). Edit it and rebuild to change it; empty it to serve at a domain root.
• Rewriting is done by scripts/build_site.py as the final build step; the baked state is recorded in dist/.baseurl.
• src/scripts/site.js derives the prefix at runtime from its own <script src> (search fetch, result links, and query URLs), so the JS never needs rebaking.
• scripts/serve.py previews dist/ the way Pages serves it: the baked prefix works, redirects stay under the prefix, and directories without index.html return 404 (no listings).
• public/.nojekyll is copied into dist/ so Pages skips Jekyll processing (which would drop underscore-prefixed files).
• Do not publish public/ directly. It is only the static asset input copied into dist/, and it intentionally does not contain the generated site index.

Note: there is no login gating in this build — anything in dist/ is public once published.