Pupil Platform

Static front-end for the archived Pupil Platform, a XooNIps database for pupil research, built with Vite, React and TypeScript.

Requirements

• Node.js 20.19+ / 22.12+ (Vite 8)
• npm

Setup

npm install

Site data

The pages are rendered from JSON dumped out of the original XooNIps installation by xoops-static-exporter (sites/pupil.brain.riken.jp/). All of it lives in static-contents/, which sits next to the repository rather than inside it:

pupil.brain.riken.jp/
├── pupil.brain.riken.jp/   this repository
└── static-contents/
    └── modules/
        └── xoonips/        tree.json, items.json, simpf-links.json, file/<id>/

The RewriteBase in every modules/xoonips/file/<id>/.htaccess carries the absolute path of that directory and has to move with the layout.

The dev and preview servers mount that directory at the site root. It is kept out of dist/, and it is not tracked in git.

The right column shows photos tagged eye and pupil from Flickr's public feed, loaded in the browser as JSONP.

Scripts

Command	Description
npm run dev	Start the dev server on http://localhost:5173
npm run build	Type-check and build into dist/
npm run preview	Serve the production build on http://localhost:4173
npm run lint	Lint with Biome
npm run format	Format with Biome
npm run check	Lint, format and organize imports, applying the safe fixes

@types/node is pinned to the major that matches the Node runtime in use (24); .ncurc.js keeps npm-check-updates from bumping it past that.

There is currently no test suite.

Styles

The base stylesheet is sanitize.css with its forms and typography sheets, with its box-sizing: border-box kept. The site's own base rules are in src/App.css and the layout in the CSS Modules under src/common/. Where a sanitize.css default does not suit the design, the rule for that place sets its own value rather than overriding the element everywhere.

Deployment

Build locally and copy the result up; the server does not need a toolchain.

npm ci
npm run check
npm run build
../deploy.sh

deploy.sh, next to static-contents/, sends the data to archive:/data/www/pupil.brain.riken.jp/static-contents/, then dist/ to .../html/, and finally links every top-level entry of static-contents/ into the document root over ssh (ln -sfn ../static-contents/* .). The data has to go first: the document root's rsync --delete removes those links, and they are only put back at the end.

Apache needs Options FollowSymLinks and AllowOverride All on both directories. Use symlinks rather than Alias: an Alias maps the URL outside the document root, so .htaccess no longer applies and the SPA fallback and the redirects stop working.

Redirects

.htaccess redirects these addresses with a 301:

From	To
/modules/xoonips/download.php?file_id=N	/modules/xoonips/file/N
/database/file/...	/modules/xoonips/file/...

XOOPS-style addresses (/modules/xoonips/detail.php?item_id=N, /index.php) are redirected inside the app.

Google Analytics

GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID in src/config.ts carries the GA4 measurement ID. Emptying it disables tracking. Only production builds send page views.