birchpad.ru

Website of Birchpad: the landing pages and the documentation, in Russian and English.

• public/ — the landing pages as plain HTML and CSS (index.html, en/index.html, assets/), copied to the site as they are. assets/site.js moves the download links to the latest release through the GitHub API and picks the download for the visitor's system.
• src/content/docs/ — the documentation, roadmap, privacy policy and contributing guide (Astro + Starlight); Russian at the root, English under en/. The sidebar is in astro.config.mjs.
• scripts/sync.mjs — builds the changelog, the keyboard shortcuts and the language list from Birchpad's repository before every build (BIRCHPAD_REF picks the branch, BIRCHPAD_DIR a local checkout). It also notes when those sources last changed, for the sitemap's <lastmod>.
• scripts/og.mjs — draws the social preview images public/assets/og-ru.png and og-en.png; run it by hand after changing them.
• scripts/indexnow.mjs — tells Yandex, Bing and the other IndexNow engines which pages changed; the key file is public/<key>.txt.

npm ci
npm run dev      # http://localhost:4321
npm run build    # into dist/

.github/workflows/deploy.yml publishes the site to GitHub Pages on every push to main and once a day, so a new Birchpad release reaches the site without a commit here. Pages that are new or have another <lastmod> than on the live site are then sent to IndexNow. Google does not take IndexNow; it reads the sitemap, submitted once in Search Console.

Fonts: Literata and JetBrains Mono, SIL Open Font License 1.1.