A static site generator for AOE Technology Radar
- The repository is now found here: https://github.com/AOEpeople/techradar
- The AOE Tech radar is deployed here: https://www.aoe.com/techradar/index.html
Version 4.0.0 is a complete rewrite of the AOE Technology Radar. It is now based on Next.js to provide enhanced static site generation. The visualization has been rewritten without the need for the D3 dependency. New features include a fuzzy search based on Fuse.js, non-overlapping blips on the radar, and a reworked tag filter on the homepage.
To migrate from the old version please migrate your package.json
's scripts and create a
new config.json
based on the documentation below. You can find a reference implementation in
our repo. The old version is still available in the v3
branch.
Version 4.0.0 also removes the .html extension from the URLs. If you want to support the old URLs, we recommend to add a redirect rule. For nginx, you can use the following rule:
rewrite ^/techradar/(.+)\.html$ /techradar/$1/ permanent;
The generator is free to use under Open Source License - in fact there are already some other Radars published based on our Radar and there are also Contributions back. However, it would be nice to mention in radar that the generator is based on this repository.
Ensure node.js ist installed and create a new project by creating a new folder with a package.json
file like the following and adapt to your needs:
{
"name": "aoe-techradar",
"version": "1.0.0",
"license": "MIT",
"scripts": {
"build": "techradar build",
"serve": "techradar serve"
},
"dependencies": {
"aoe_technology_radar": "^4"
}
}
Run npm install
to install the dependencies and run npm run build
to create the initial radar.
This will also create a basic bootstrap of all required files, including the config.json
and
the about.md
if they do not exist yet.
Place your logo.svg
and favicon.ico
in the public
folder next to the package.json
.
The ideal logo is 150px x 60px. For reference have a look at public/logo.svg.
If you want to use a file other than an SVG, copy it to the public
folder and set the name of the
file as logoFile
inside the config.json
. e.g. "logoFile": "acme-logo.png"
Open the config.json
file and configure the radar to your needs.
Attribute | Description |
---|---|
basePath | Set if hosting under a sub-path, otherwise set it to / . Default is /techradar |
baseUrl | Set to the full URL, where the radar will be hosted. Will be used for sitemap.xml. https://www.aoe.com/techradar |
logoFile | (optional) Filepath in public folder. Default is logo.svg |
jsFile | (optional) Filepath in public folder or URL to enable include of custom script |
toggles | (optional) Modify the behaviour and contents of the radar. See config below. |
sections | (optional) Modify the order of sections (radar , tags , list ) |
colors | A map of colors for the radar. Can be any valid CSS color value |
quadrants | Config of the 4 quadrants of the radar. See config below. |
rings | Config of the rings of the radar. See config below. |
flags | Config of the flags of the radar. See config below |
chart | If you hava a lot of items, you can increase the size to scale down the radar |
social | Social links in the footer. See config below |
imprint | URL to the legal information |
labels | Configure the labels to change the texts and labels of the radar |
tags | (optional) Use to render only items, which contain at least one of the specified tags. e.g ["frontend", "backend"] |
editUrl | (optional) If set, an edit button will be shown next to the revision. You can use placeholders for {id} and {release} |
Attribute | Description |
---|---|
showChart | Render the radar visualization on the homepage? |
showTagFilter | Render the tag filter below the radar? |
showQuadrantList | Render the items below the radar? |
showEmptyRings | If set to true it will render empty rings in the list |
An array with of radar
, tags
, list
in order you want them to appear on the page.
Attribute | Description |
---|---|
id | Used as reference in the radar markdown files and URLs |
title | Title of the quadrant |
description | Will be shown on startpage and on the quadrants detail page |
color | Color of the quadrant arcs and blips |
Attribute | Description |
---|---|
id | Used as reference in the radar markdown files |
title | Title of the ring. Will be used in the badge |
description | |
color | Color of the ring's badge |
radius | Size of the ring. Value between 0 and 1, where 0.5 would be a ring 50% wide |
strokeWidth | Size of the ring's border |
Attribute | Description |
---|---|
color | Color of the flag |
title | Long label of the flag |
titleShort | Short label (single letter) shown in lists |
description | Label in the radar legend |
Attribute | Description |
---|---|
href | URL to the website |
icon | One of facebook , github , gitlab , instagram , linkedin , x , xing , youtube |
Edit the about.md
file next to the package.json
file. The contents will be shown on
the /help-and-about-tech-radar
page. Optionally you can change the title of the menu by
setting labels.pageAbout
in your config.json
.
Remove or edit existing items in the radar
folder.
For a new release, create a folder of the release date (YYYY-MM-DD)
under ./radar
. e.g. ./radar/2024-03-01
.
The items are written in Markdown format (.md)
Each file has a meta header where the attributes of the item are listed:
---
title: "React"
ring: adopt
quadrant: languages-and-frameworks
tags: [frontend, coding]
---
Text goes here. You can use **markdown** here.
Following front-matter attributes are possible:
- title: Name of the Item
- quadrant: Quadrant. One of the configured quadrants in
config.quadrants
- ring: Ring section in radar. One of the configured rings in
config.rings
- tags: Optional tags for filtering.
- featured: (optional, default "true") If you set this to
false
, the item will not be visible in the radar quadrants but still be available in the overview.
The name of the .md file acts as item identifier and may overwrite items with the same name from older releases.
If an item is overwritten in a new release, the attributes from the new item are merged with the old ones, and a new history entry is created for that item.
You can integrate images in your markdown. Put the image files in the public/images
folder and
reference them
![nice image](/images/optional-content-image.png)
Your final file and folder structure should look like this:
├── about.md
├── config.json
├── package.json
├── public/
│ ├── images/
│ │ └── optional-content-image.png
│ ├── favicon.ico
│ └── logo.svg
└── radar/
├── 2023-12-31/
│ ├── demo-item-1.md
│ └── demo-item-2.md
└── 2024-03-05/
├── demo-item-1.md
└── demo-item-3.md
Run npm run build
to build the radar and upload the files of the ./build
folder to your server.
You can view a development version of the radar by running npm run serve
and open the radar in
your browser at http://localhost:3000/techradar
or the path you specified via basePath
.
If you need to customize the radar's styles, you can add custom CSS rules to the custom.css
file.
Be aware that this might break with future versions of the radar as we use css-modules in the components which generates dynamic, hashed class names and the layout structure might change.
Therefore, it's advised the [attribute^=value]
selector that matches elements whose attribute
value begins
with a specified value. As an example, if you want to always show the subline in the header use
the following rule:
[class^="Logo_subline"] {
display: block;
opacity: 1;
}
If you want to include assets like images or fonts, use ../../public/
as the base path.
Adding a background image to the page could be archived like this:
body {
background: url("../../public/background.png");
}
Changing the font-family of the headlines:
h1,
h2,
h3 {
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville, Georgia, serif;
}
Changes to the css file will not be reflected in the development server. You need to
run npm run serve
or npm run build
to see the changes.
If you want to change core functionality of the radar, you can clone this repository and put your
radar's markdown-files, config.json and about.md in the data
folder. Run npm run build:data
to
parse the markdown files and create a data.json
and then run npm run dev
to start the
development server, which will be available at http://localhost:3000/techradar
or the path
you specified via basePath
.