Caporaso Lab website source

This repository contains the source for the Caporaso Lab website, hosted at www.caplab.dev.

The site is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, using the AstroWind template as its starting point.

Site content is written by Caporaso Lab members. Site development is assisted by Claude Code.

Local development

git clone https://github.com/caporaso-lab/website
cd website
npm install
npm run dev

Open the URL printed by npm run dev (default: http://localhost:4321).

Common commands

Command	Action
npm install	Install dependencies
npm run dev	Start local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build the production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview the production build locally
npm run check	Check the project for errors

Project structure

Pages are .astro or .mdx files under src/pages/ — each file maps directly to a route. Site-wide configuration lives in src/config.yaml and src/navigation.ts. Shared components are in src/components/. Images and other processed assets are in src/assets/. Static files served as-is (e.g., poster PNG thumbnails) are in public/.

Hosting and domain

The site is built and served by the Cloudflare Pages project caplab-website-2, in the lab's Cloudflare account. Every push to main deploys to production, and every other branch gets a preview build at its own *.caplab-website-2.pages.dev address.

The canonical address is https://www.caplab.dev. It is set as site in src/config.yaml, which generates the canonical tags, the sitemap and the Sitemap: line in robots.txt. www.caplab.dev is a custom domain on the Pages project, reached through a DNS-only CNAME to caplab-website-2.pages.dev in the caplab.dev zone, which Greg manages in a separate Cloudflare account. Pages can attach a bare domain such as caplab.dev only when its zone is in the same account as the project, which is why the site lives at www.

Attribution

This site is based on AstroWind, created by onWidget and licensed under the MIT License.