www/README.md
Hauke Mehrtens a0e1ef046a Vendor ical.js instead of loading it from unpkg.com
The upcoming events table pulled its ICS parser straight from a CDN with
`import ICAL from "https://unpkg.com/ical.js/dist/ical.min.js"`. That sends
every visitor of the start page to unpkg.com, which hands their IP address and
user agent to a third party before any of our own code runs. The URL is not
even pinned to a version, so whatever ical.js publishes next is executed on our
site without anybody looking at it, and the start page silently breaks when the
CDN is unreachable.

Check the parser into `assets/js/vendor/` and let Hugo bundle it. This is what
`js.Build` is for: it runs the esbuild that is built into Hugo, so it resolves
the import at build time and needs no node_modules and no extra tooling in the
build environment. The result is minified and fingerprinted like the other
scripts of the site, and the script tag carries a subresource integrity hash.

Since the bundle now has a content hash in its name, its URL cannot be written
by hand in the markdown any more. Move the table and the script tag into an
`upcoming` shortcode, which is the same pattern `calendar.html` already uses,
and move `upcoming.js` from `static/` to `assets/` so Hugo can process it.

The vendored file is the unminified `dist/ical.js` of the pinned release: it
carries the MPL-2.0 header and is the source form of what we ship, and Hugo
minifies it for delivery anyway. `assets/js/vendor/README.md` records the
version, where it came from and how to update it.

The built bundle renders the same table as before, checked against
https://berlin.ccc.de/calendars/all.ics.

Fixes: c28f04c6e8 ("switch to ics files; make calendars work; fix some minor issues")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
2026-08-23 01:07:25 +02:00

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CCCB Website

This is the website of the CCCB.

CCCB logo

Getting started

  1. Get Hugo: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing

  2. Clone this repo (--recursive is needed to check out submodules)

    git clone --recursive https://git.berlin.ccc.de/cccb-website-team/www.git cccb-website
    
  3. Switch directory

    cd cccb-website
    
  4. Run hugo webserver

    hugo serve
    
  5. Point your browser to: http://localhost:1313/

Every change you make on the project will be reflected in your browser as long as hugo serve is running.

The "Nächste Veranstaltungen" table on the home page and the calendar under /verein/calendar/ are rendered in the browser by assets/js/upcoming.js and assets/js/calendar.js. Both fetch /calendars/all.ics, which is not generated by Hugo and is not part of this repo — it is published separately on the web server. Without it both tables stay empty. Download the published calendar into static/, which Hugo serves under the same path, and they work locally, under hugo serve as well as in a built site:

mkdir -p static/calendars
curl -o static/calendars/all.ics https://berlin.ccc.de/calendars/all.ics

The file is only there to look at the site, it is not checked in. Download it again whenever you want the events that are currently published.

Hugo does generate an .ics feed per section (for example /veranstaltungen/index.ics) from the dtstart, dtend and rrule front matter of the pages in content/veranstaltungen/, using the .ics templates under layouts/.

The site must not make the browser load anything from an external server, so third party JavaScript is checked into assets/js/vendor/ and bundled in by Hugo instead of being pulled from a CDN. See the README there before updating it.

To build the site for upload, run:

./build.sh

This deletes public/ and runs hugo with the parameters from .hugo-params. To build with nix instead: nix build '.?submodules=1#production-content'

Making a change

  1. Use your local dev setup (see Getting started) or via the Forgejo editor.
  2. Make your change in staging branch.
  3. Commit (and push) your change.
  4. GitHub Actions is running the release workflow.
  5. Create a merge request to merge changes from staging to production branch. Ask somebody to check merge request or if small change, merge yourself.
  6. GitHub Actions is running the release workflow.
    • If successfull, check Website if change is correct.
  7. Profit!

Nix stuff

  • After entering the shell with nix develop, hugo is available and hugo serve and ./build.sh should work
  • You can build the staging and production builds with nix build .#staging-content and nix build .#production-content
  • Do not update the nixpkgs branch - 25.05 contains a newer hugo version that is incompatible with the theme (last checked June 2025)

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