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, or that are likely to be used.

Backend

I am currently in the process of migrating from a Python and Django-based backend to one written in Elixir. This list is what will be used in the near future.

Crawler and API

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

Graph layout

• Gephi toolkit

Frontend

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

Other

• Docker and docker-compose
• The frontend is hosted on Netlify