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Revision as of 08:25, 28 June 2020
software | description | use | logo and url |
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Quasar framework | open-source Vue.JS based framework for building apps, | We use it for all the Frontend part of the site, taking advantage of the server side rendering feature | https://quasar.dev/ |
Cheerio | DOM manipulation from an html string | We use it to perform some adjustments to the mediawiki html output before recording the last version of a page to be served through the APIs | https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio#readme |
Esprima | ECMAScript parser | We use it to securely parse the javascript object produced by the Frontend Index storing the structure of the tree | https://github.com/jquery/esprima |
nodemw | Nodejs interface for the Mediawiki APIs | We use it to call the mediawiki APIs from a nodejs script to retrieve and structure wiki pages before serving them through the APIs | https://github.com/macbre/nodemw |
detectlanguage | Language identification JSON webservice | We use it to determine the language of a wiki page, in order to filter them by language in the frontend site, or to perform hyphenation | https://detectlanguage.com/ |
Detecting languages (Google Cloud Translation) | Language detect using Google Cloud Translation APIs | As above, we use both of them concurrently | https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/basic/detecting-language |
Knex | Query builder for nodejs | We use it to assemble mysql queries in our nodejs scripts | http://knexjs.org/ |
Email templates | A wrapper for sending email using template engines (like PUG) and transports (like Nodemailer) | We use it to send email using PUG templates and Node mailer-Sendgrid transport | https://github.com/forwardemail/email-templates |