Tech Stack Summary

We use Render.com for hosting the server and database.

The server is Node-based; it serves an API powered by Express and a front-end powered by Vue.

For email we use either AWS SES, or any regular client email account (like [email protected]).

The NPM dependencies of the API server are:

"express"
"body-parser"
"connect-history-api-fallback"
"cookie-parser"
"morgan" - for http logging

The NPM dependencies of the API database are:

"knex" - abstraction for PostgreSQL
"pg" - direct control of PostgreSQL

The NPM dependencies of the API services are:

"multer" - for multipart form uploads
"aws-sdk" - for SES for emails

"date-fns" - for formatting dates
"moment" - also for formatting dates
"numeral" - for formatting numbers

"dotenv" - for reading configuration files
"lodash" - low-level Javascript helper functions
"lodash-checkit" - more low-level Javascript helper functions
"uuid" - uuid generator
"xlsx" - converts xlsx spreadsheets to json and back

The NPM dependencies of the Vue component are:

"vue"
"@vue/cli"
"vue-router"
"vuex"
"mustache"

Toolchain

The VCS is Github. Changes to the master branch automatically deploy to the production instances on Render.com.

The test framework is Mocha/Chai

The issue tracker is Airtable