Take Shelter Now

A website for helping people in weather emergencies find shelter fast.

Documentation

• docs.opensgf.org
  • Non technical documentation, including project overview, designs, and project management information
• ./docs
  • Technical documentation, including architecture decisions

Live Deployments

Environment	Status	Url
Production		takeshelternow.org
Staging		staging.takeshelternow.org

Component Preview

• Storybook
• Chromatic Library

First Time Setup

• Make sure you have Node 26.x (Ideally using nvm)
• Install dependencies npm i
• Copy .env.example to .env

Environment variables

• PUBLIC_SHELTERS_JSON_URL: URL to fetch shelter data from, for local development (overrides Google Sheet if set)
• PUBLIC_SITE_ENV: Set to production to allow indexing; any other value disables indexing
• PUBLIC_SITE_URL: Canonical site URL used for sitemap and other absolute URLs
• GOOGLE_SHEET_ID: Published Google Sheet ID from /spreadsheets/d/e/<ID>/pub
• GOOGLE_SHEET_GID: Specific worksheet/tab gid to export as CSV

Running the project

npm run dev

# or start the server and open the app in a new browser tab
npm run dev -- --open