Design history for Becoming a teacher (BAT)

A history of the product, design, technology and policy decisions shaping the services that enable and support trainee teacher recruitment.

https://becoming-a-teacher.design-history.education.gov.uk/

Purpose of this project

This repository makes it easy to:

• document designs using the GOV.UK Design System
• print pages of designs
• make designs shareable and linkable

Installation

• Clone this repository to a folder on your computer
• Open Terminal
• In Terminal, change the path to the repository
• Type npm install to install the dependencies

Working locally

Most of the time you’ll be adding new posts. If you’re just doing this then:

• Open Terminal
• Type npm start

This will automatically restart the application with any changes to your posts an any images applied.

If you want to make changes to CSS and JavaScript, and watch for those changes, run npm run dev.

Technical notes

The design history uses the GOV.UK Design System and the Eleventy static site generator.

Legacy

This design history replaces an earlier version based on the govuk-prototype-kit:

• https://github.com/DFE-Digital/bat-design-history-old
• https://bat-design-history-old.herokuapp.com/