The new website for the Harvard Advocate, built by Andreas Lordos '25. Live here.
Currently maintained by Conan Lu '26 and the Tech Board. Reach out to tech@theharvardadvocate.com with any questions.
studio directory is for the Sanity content editing studio and holds the schema.
web directory is for the Advocate website, currently uses React and Emotion for CSS, using Sanity's GROQ language to grab data.
npm install
npm install -g @sanity/cli
(if npm install -g @sanity/cli doesn't work try dropping the -g)
Might need to run npm install within directories idk.
npm run dev
After which the Advocate website will hopefully compiled to http://localhost:3000 and the studio will hopefully be at http://localhost:3333.
We use prettier and eslint
Key packages: Theme UI (https://theme-ui.com/) Sanity (https://www.sanity.io/) React Router (https://v5.reactrouter.com/)
If you want to build and run an optimized version of the site, navigate to the web directory and run:
npm run build
serve -s build
Any new push to main will automatically deploy to the live site after ~2 minutes (see our GitHub actions page). The website is deployed using Firebase.