Avant.org

This repository contains the recovery of the avant.org website.

Contents

site/

The complete recovered website ready for deployment:

• index.html - Homepage
• project/ - Project articles and content
• artifact/ - Artifact collections
• event/ - Event documentation
• gallery/ - Media galleries
• author/ - Author profiles
• thread/ - Topic threads
• tag/ - Content tags
• objects/ - Media assets and files
• css/, js/ - Stylesheets and scripts
• All favicons, logos, and branding assets

Local Development

Quick Start

# Enter development environment
nix develop

# Start the auto-reload dev server
just watch

The site will be available at http://localhost:8000.

Available Commands

just watch         # Dev server with auto-reload (port 8000)
just dev           # Alias for watch
just serve         # Simple no-cache server (port 8000)
just serve 4000    # Serve on a custom port
just dev-bg        # Run dev server in background (logs to server.log)
just stop          # Stop all running servers
just status        # Check if a server is running on :8000
just restart       # Stop and relaunch the background dev server
just test          # Curl-based smoke test (server must be running)
just logs          # Show last 20 lines of server.log
just logs-follow   # Tail server.log in real time
just clean         # Remove temp files, __pycache__, logs
just info          # Show project stats

Deployment

The recovered website is a complete static site that can be deployed to any web server:

1. Local testing: Use just serve for development
2. Web server: Upload site/ contents to your web root
3. Static hosting: Deploy to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, etc.

Development Environment

This project uses Nix for reproducible development:

# Enter development environment
nix develop

# Environment includes Python with all dependencies:
# - requests, beautifulsoup4, lxml for web scraping
# - urllib3, certifi for HTTP handling