Learn Plasma

October 29, 2018 · View on GitHub

This website aims to educate visitors about the fundamentals and design principles of plasma, a framework for building scalable blockchain applications.

Learn Plasma was conceived at the 2018 IC3 Boot Camp at Cornell and is maintained by community contributors!

Development

git clone https://github.com/ethsociety/learn-plasma.git
cd learn-plasma
npm install

# watch during development, auto-refresh courtesy of browser-sync
npm run dev
open http://127.0.0.1:7781

# build for production
npm run prd

# experimental static site test
npm test

Check out ./package.json for each of the individual scripts if you get interested in what is available.

Pages

The easiest way to make a page is to make a directory then put a markdown file in it.

mkdir source/en/plasma-scientific-thoughts
touch source/en/plasma-scientific-thoughts/index.md

Pages and Posts use something called "Front Matter" to give the page some context like title, date, and categories. You don't have to use them all. Bare minimum it should have a title and date in it though.

A bare minimum page:

---
title: Plasma Scientific Thoughts
date: 2018-08-21 16:26:02
---

Plasma blinded me with science! 🙈

Or with categories and tags:

---
title: Plasma Scientific Thoughts
date: 2018-08-21 16:26:02
categories:
- Plasma
- Science
tags:
- plasma
- monkies
- cash
---

Plasma blinded me with science! 🙈

How do we get that date?

  • Shell date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
  • JavaScript (new Date()).toGMTString()
  • Python import datetime; datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()

Posts

It's pretty much the same thing as Pages.

  • English touch source/en/_posts/the-man.md
  • German touch source/de/_posts/the-man.md
---
title: The Man Who Collected All the Plasma Cash in One Wallet
date: 2018-09-18T01:07:27.467Z
---

It's all mine! 🤑💸

The recent posts can get aggregated on the front page or we can make a blog page if we need it.

Language files

For example English:

  • ./source/_data/en.yml
  • ./source/en

Or German:

  • ./source/_data/de.yml
  • ./source/de

If you want to translate some pages to your language you can copy an existing one you know then submit for PR.

Edit CSS & JS

Stylus gets transpiled to CSS, JavaScript is bundled with Webpack. In production it will get optimized and minified.

  • ./themes/learn-plasma/src/index.styl
  • ./themes/learn-plasma/src/index.js

Edit the theme templates

./theme/learn-plasma/layout/*.ejs

References

Plasma

Developing this site