IRL.DEV is a site that features real-life events from volunteer members of the DEV Community.

It is built with Gatsby and Airtable.

Install Gatsby

npm install -g gatsby-cli

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:thepracticaldev/IRL.DEV.git

Change into the project

cd IRL.DEV

Install the dependencies

npm i

Set up a link to your development database. Here is the database, click the copy base button.

If you haven't generated you API key already go to https://airtable.com/account and generate your Airtable API key now.

Then, go to your copied base and look at its API documentation. If you go to the help button on the top right, and click on API documentation. Go to the node.js or JavaScript tab. You should see a line of code that looks like this:

const base = require("airtable").base("your_base_id")

Click on show API key checkbox in the top right then copy the id from the base method.

Create an .env file with two variables. Set the GATSBY_AIRTABLE_BASE to your base key.

GATSBY_AIRTABLE_API_KEY=your_api_key
GATSBY_AIRTABLE_BASE=your_base_id

After checking show API key toggle, you'll also see your api key in a line of code that looks like this:

$ export AIRTABLE_API_KEY=your_api_key

Set the GATSBY_AIRTABLE_API_KEY in your .env to your API key.

Now you're ready to start developing!

gatsby develop

• In order to see new events on the site, moderators have to check off the approved box in the Airtable base.
• In order to deploy new events, the site needs to be re-deployed. You can do this manually on Netlify or through pushing a code change.