How it works/Technology we use

Here is a list of the tools we use to make this platform work. Of course each of them depends in turn by other tools (for instance Quasar Framework depends on Vuejs, and Vuejs is in turn composed by several components), however, given a set even arbitrary of the most prominent tools we use, the reader might explore them further on his own and therefore retrieving what is missing.

software	description	use	logo and url
Mediawiki 1.34	The collaboration and documentation platform which inspired and powers Wikipedia.	We use it for the back-end side of this site, in order to ensure collaborative creation of quality contents.	https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Mediawiki extensions	Plugins extending the set of features of Mediawiki.	Some of the most prominent extensions include: Page forms, Semantic Mediawiki, Visual editor, Ms Upload, MultimediaViewer, and more: we are also using a custom extension created by us!	Special:Version
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
Prism	Javascript syntax highlighter	We use it to display code snippets on the Frontend site	https://prismjs.com/
jsonwebtoken	Nodejs implementation of An implementation of JSON Web Tokens.	We use it to signin a student accessing to Classes	https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonwebtoken
jsTree	Jquery plugin, that provides interactive trees	We use it to display an interactive tree of the structured index created by our script from a given set of wiki pages	https://www.jstree.com/
			... and more ! The list is in progress !