The Statesman's meme generator is a lightly-modified fork of the Vox meme generator. It has been modified to work without Ruby (except Compass, which is required to run the build process).

Assets are now built using Grunt, which transpiles the SASS files and concatenates/minifies the JavaScript. We modified the app this way to make it more easily deployable on our internal infrastructure.

To assist in development, the default Grunt task also:

• launches a local server at http://localhost:8000/
• starts grunt-contrib-watch to watch index.html and the .js files in /source
• Livereload is enabled if you are running the browser extenstions.

Statesman images, fonts, etc. are currently in the app so you'll need to follow the steps below to customize the app for your use:

1. Add appropriate images to source/images/.
2. Edit the settings file at source/javascripts/settings.js.
3. Add any fonts you'll need at source/stylesheets/_fonts.scss.
4. npm install
5. gem install compass
6. Run grunt

A local server should open at http://localhost:8000/ where you can use the tool locally.

We run the project through GitHub pages to allow access to the newsroom. We deploy this with git push origin master:gh-pages.

As of May 2016, we have been merging changes only into the statesman master branch, and have not been pulling any Vox changes in. So if you work on a feature branch, be careful with pull requests. We merge using master as base, not Vox. - @critmcdonald

See the original repo at https://github.com/voxmedia/meme for additional info.