Archived - 2025.04.14

The drand documentation is now hosted here: https://github.com/drand/drand-docs Using Docusaurus and with more up-to-date informations.

You can find the documentation online here: https://docs.drand.love/

Please open issues there about the docs from now on.

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drand documentation

Welcome to the drand documentation website! The live site can be found at https://drand.love.

Project set up

If you want to build this site locally, run the following:

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/drand/website.git

2. Move into the website folder and install the npm dependencies:

   cd website
   npm install

3. Boot up the application in dev mode:

   npm start

4. Open localhost:8084 in your browser.

5. Close the local server with CTRL + c.

6. To restart the local server, run npm start from within the website folder.

Note: You'll need to use NodeJS version 16, e.g. 16.19.1. At the moment, NodeJS 18 or newer is not supported.

Creating a blog post

1. Within the /docs/blog directory, create a new markdown document for the blog post. It should be the date of the post as YYYY-MM-DD followed by the post title in kebab-case and finally the extension .md. So, a post called Bill and Teds Excellent Randomness Protocol created on Monday 25th May 2020 would look like /docs/blog/2020-05-25-bill-and-teds-excellent-randomness-protocol.md.

2. If you need to add images into your post, first copy and paste them into the blog folder, then reference them within your post using [Image caption](./image-name.png). You must prefix the path with ./ or the image will not display correctly on the website.

3. Before you write the post, add the following meta data using YAML front matter:

   ---
   title: The title of your blog post, note you do not need to repeat this in the post content
   summary: A short summary of the blog post for display in the post index page.
   date: 2020-08-10
   tags:
      - Grouping
      - Tags
      - Relevant
      - To
      - The
      - Post
   ---

Always test that you blog post is displaying correctly before merging anything into master.

Deployment to drand.love

Commits on master automatically deploy the updated website to https://drand.love using Cloudflare Pages. Commits on side branches provide a preview build.