index.community/BILL-OF-MATERIALS.md

Software Bill of Materials

This is an overview of the external software components (libraries, etc.) that are used in fediverse.space.

Backend

Crawler and API

• Elixir (the language)
• Phoenix (the web framework)
• See /backend/mix.env for a complete overview of dependencies

Graph layout

• Java (the language)
• Gradle (to build)
• Gephi toolkit

Frontend

• React (the UI framework)
• Blueprint (a collection of pre-existing UI components)
• Cytoscape.js (for graph visualization)
• See /frontend/package.json for a complete overview of dependencies

Other

• Docker and docker-compose
• The backend is deployed using Dokku.
• The frontend is hosted on Netlify
• GitLab and GitLab CI/CD are used for project management and CI/CD.