Danny Kind Legal Atlas (DKLA)

A law-study web app: three first-year courses (Contracts, Civil Procedure, Legislation and the Regulatory State) as one zoomable map, with a brief for every case, the source readings, a legal dictionary, Cold Call narratives, study drills and Supreme Court history. It works offline after the first load.

Live at dannykind.wiki. The private analytics dashboard is at dkla.dev.

What is in this repository

Path	What it is
src/	Source of the base app. The original atlas split into editable parts: runtime/ (JavaScript), styles/, markup/, and data/ (about 30,000 small JSON records: the map, the archives, the dictionary, SCOTUS records). src/manifest.json lists the parts in order.
src/features/	Source of everything added since. The code and styles of each later feature, in a folder named after the revision that introduced it: r19/ (briefs, timelines, takeaways, the offline worker), cold-call/ (the reader and the frosted button), v25/ (rules and authorities, map geography, the reading panel, the Home layout), v26/ (typography, the embedded font, the SCOTUS building in typography.js), performance/ (loading briefs on demand), analytics/ (the visitor analytics client), sessions/ (the session cards on each course map, and the October 1, 2026 Civil Procedure syllabus). src/features/manifest.json lists them in the order they load.
tools/r19/	Content and build. Briefs and their data (data/), and the assembler that builds the app (assemble.py).
tools/cold-call/	Content. Cold Call narratives (narratives/), their index and checks.
tools/v25/	Datasets and checks for rules and authorities, the map geography, the reading panel and the Home layout, and the scripts that build those datasets.
tools/v26/	The owner's typography and SCOTUS building decisions (TYPOGRAPHY.md) and the font files the embedded fonts are made from (assets/, written into the page by embed-fonts.mjs).
tools/performance/, tools/sync/, tools/analytics/	Tests and build steps for loading briefs on demand, ratings sync and visitor analytics.
tools/sessions/	Content and a check. The October 1, 2026 Civil Procedure syllabus as a list of edits over the September weeks (civil-syllabus.json), and the check that the weeks follow it.
tools/r12/	Three course layout designs still read by the geography check.
tools/verify/	Checks. See "How to know it still works".
tools/*.mjs, tools/source/	The build, the local preview server, and tools for reading single records out of src/data.
api/, lib/	Server. Vercel functions for analytics, the admin dashboard, ratings sync, and Ask Dottie (the AI research assistant).
assets/admin/	The private dashboard's page, script and styles.
added-sources/	Content. The assigned readings, opinions, briefs and dictionary source (660 MB of PDFs and text). Published as-is.
DKLA-sources/	Manifest of the scanned casebook pages (the images themselves are not in the repository).
how-to-use.html, guide/, privacy.html, restore-page-images.html, icons/, manifest.webmanifest	Small published pages and assets, served as they are.
tools/public-files.json	The exact list of files that get published. Nothing else leaves the repository.
vercel.json	Hosting: the build command, redirects from every old version's address to the current one, and cache rules.
docs/history/	Old handoffs and audit notes from earlier agent sessions. History, not instructions.
archive/	The retired pipeline that first built the SCOTUS data, and one old verification record. Not used by the build.
dist/, work/, test-results/, node_modules/	Output and scratch. Created by the build and the checks. Never committed.

All code that reaches a visitor is under src/. Later features were added as layers on top of the base app; src/features/manifest.json is the ordered list of those layers. Their datasets and checks are still under tools/, in the folder with the same name.

How to build it

You need Node 24, pnpm 11 and Python 3.10 or newer. On Windows, if Python is not on PATH, set DKLA_PYTHON to its python.exe.

pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm build       # writes work/build/ and the public dist/
pnpm preview     # builds, then serves dist/ at http://127.0.0.1:8766/

work/build/DKLA-v2.9.html is a complete single-file copy of the atlas. dist/ is exactly what the website serves: the same page with the full briefs split out so they load when opened.

Pushing to the branch claude/atlas-design-content-audit-m1cw9x makes Vercel run the same build and publish it to both domains. Nothing else deploys.

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