OpenUserCSS

Vue powers all parts of the clientside code, which is rendered on the server for performance

Let's Encrypt provides automatic free, short-term SSL certificates that Traefik uses to secure communication between your browser and the server

Every container used for testing, development and production runs Alpine Linux

Concourse validates Pull Requests and builds every commit on the master branch

Anime.js runs on the client, making it easy to deliver high performance animations and page transitions

The OpenUserCSS Forums run on NodeBB

When an error occurs on the forums or on the main site, Sentry helpfully fires alerts and creates issues that can be linked to GitHub

The OpenUserCSS API implements GraphQL, thanks to the apollo-server package

The popular ExpressJS framework handles all data passed through the API and also serves the webpage itself, along with static files

Most of the software used in the infrastructure of OpenUserCSS are written in Javascript

The build process processes the source code using Babel to make it possible to write arguably better JavaScript

MongoDB is used as a database to store profile data, themes and forum posts.

Node.js is the JavaScript runtime OpenUserCSS uses to run the service

Docker provides container orchestration (along with docker-compose) to make it easy to deploy new versions, or to roll back to a previuos version afterwards

Traefik is a docker-aware reverse proxy that provides automatic SSL certificates, with the help of Let's Encrypt