This documentation describes how the PBS NewsHour’s Vote 2012 Map Center is put together from a technical perspective, primarily for people who are interested in developing new features for it.
Note
Throughout this documentation, we refer to certain file names and file paths. These paths are relative to the Map Center root directory, which is http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2012/map/ or the frontend/dist directory of the Map Center’s GitHub repository.