LTRC Website

Static website for the Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) at IIIT Hyderabad. Built with Astro 5.

Setup

npm install
npm run dev       # local dev server
npm run build     # production build to dist/
npm run preview   # preview the production build

Requires Node 18+.

Editing content

All site content lives in YAML files under content/. No code changes needed for routine updates.

File	What it controls
content/site.yaml	Site name, navigation links, footer (address, contact, socials)
content/homepage.yaml	Hero section (title, subtitle, image, CTA buttons)
content/people.yaml	All people -- faculty, staff, students, alumni
content/events.yaml	Upcoming and past events
content/news.yaml	News items
content/labs/*.yaml	Per-lab pages (overview, research areas, projects, publications)

Each YAML file is validated against a Zod schema in src/content.config.ts. The build will fail with a clear error if a required field is missing or has the wrong type.

People

content/people.yaml is the single source of truth for all person data. Each person has a type (faculty, staff, phd, ms, btech, alumni) and an optional labs array linking them to one or more labs. Lab detail pages pull their people section from this file -- there is no duplication.

Events

content/events.yaml has upcoming and past arrays. The homepage pulls upcoming events from the same file.

Adding a new lab

1. Create content/labs/your-lab.yaml following the structure of existing lab files (name, slug, tagline, description, overview, research_areas, projects, publications).
2. Add people to content/people.yaml with labs: ["Your Lab Name"].
3. Optionally add the lab to the nav dropdown in content/site.yaml.

The lab detail page at /labs/<slug> and the labs index page are generated automatically.

Deployment

npm run build produces a fully static site in dist/. Deploy to any static host (Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, a plain web server, etc.).