Toronto Nepali Film Festival

Toronto Nepali Film Festival (TNFF) is a not for profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario. Partnering with organizations in Canada, Nepal and beyond, TNFF brings a festival of extraordinary Nepali films in Toronto and other cities. By featuring films of South Asia, specifically Nepal, TNFF intends to add a fresh dimension to the multi-layered diasporic narratives of Canada.

Welcome this repository holds all the source code for tnff.ca, the site is built using gatsby and served as a static site. Gatsby is used to generate the static site. The frontend framework is react with a hasura graphql for the backend which sits infront of a postgresql database.

Getting started

After a clone of this repo, run this on the root level of this project:

# export this env variable on your terminal, contact a maintainer for the graphql endpoint
export HASURA_GRAPHQL_URL="GET_THIS_URL_FROM_A_MAINTAINER"

# install npm packages
npm install

# start the dev server, site will run at localhost:8000
npm run start

Testing

We use cypress for end to end testing, see the tests under cypress directory for all the tests. To run cypress tests locally:

# first build and serve the site
npm run build
npm run serve

# in a seperate terminal window
npm run cy:run

Continous Deployment

We use github actions for our CI/CD workflows are triggered on each push, when a pull request is opened the action defined in .github/workflows/main.yml is triggered. Pull Requests can only be merged if both jobs pass. The jobs are:

• eslint: which runs code analysis, any code lint error flagged will fail the workflow
• end-to-end tests: this runs the end to end tests defined in cypress and results are integrated in the Pull Requests

The static site is hosted using on CloudFlare Pages, all pull requests workflows are provided with a cloudflare page link for that pull request instance. Once merged into the main branch a new version is auto deployed to CloudFlare Pages production page.