Things we use

Things we use

Here are all the frameworks, libraries, and other things we use in this project.

Server-side

• Django

  • The framework we use for our entire app
  • Uses Python, so future students can easily maintain this app

• django-allauth

  • OAuth swiss army knife. Allows us to integrate with Google

• Google API

  • Integration with google (duh)
  • Calendar docs: https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/calendar/v3/python/latest/index.html

Client-side

• Bootstrap

  • Easy to use pre-made styles.
  • When making new components, use Bootstrap's styles. Bootstrap has a ton of pre-made components, and you are just wasting your time writing your own CSS.
  • Only create entirely new classes as a last resort. This should only be in the case where you add on to a style or need an entirely new component not provided by Bootstrap.

• Sass

  • An extensible CSS preprocessor
  • Bootstrap uses it, so we can easily modify it's styles and color scheme.
  • All CSS is valid SCSS, so you don't even need to know how to use Sass in order to write it.
  • btw we gitignore all *.css files, so you have to write your styles in .scss

• Petite Vue

  • Distribution of Vue.js made for progressive enhancement of pages, particularly for server-side rendered websites.
  • Can easily be imported with just a script tag
  • Makes implementing client side UI logic easy, so we can write less JavaScript.

• Font Awesome

  • Free to use icons we can use

• TinyMCE

  • Embeddable rich text editor