"jschol" - JSX eScholarship

This app uses the following technology and features:

React front-end framework including use of JSX for mixing HTML in Javascript
React Router to implement single-page app
Javascript ES2015 for advanced Javascript features (especially 'class')
React component library to create the entire UI
Sinatra lightweight server framework for Ruby
Sequel object-relational mapper for Ruby
CSS compilation using SASS
Automatic rebuilds using Gulp
LiveReload support so changes during development are reflected instantly in the browser
Isometric Javascript to provide server-side initial rendering of pages (for fast first load, and for better crawlability)
Lando for bootstrapping a Docker-based development environment
AWS CLI for deploying to Elastic Beanstalk. See our AWS CLI Cheatsheet.

Description of files

Gemfile: Lists of Ruby gems the app uses. Used by 'bundler' to download and install them locally.
Gemfile.lock: Copy of Gemfile created and managed by 'bundler'. Don't modify directly.
README.md: This file.
LICENSE: Software license.
bin/: Gets populated by 'bundler' with driver scripts for gems it installs. Don't modify directly.
config: A place to keep environment variables such as database and S3 connection parameters.
gems: Gets populated by 'bundler' with driver scripts for gems it installs. Don't modify directly.
migrations: Database schema in Ruby form. We can add new files here to morph the schema over time, and people can automatically upgrade their db.
setup.sh: Sequence of commands to run bundler to download and install all the Ruby modules the tools need.
tools/: Conversion and database maintenance tools.
tools/convert.rb: Script to populate the new eschol5 database with units, item, etc. from the old eScholarship.
defaults.env: default environment variable configuration for Lando

git checkout master && git pull origin master && git checkout prd && git pull origin prd && git merge master && git push origin prd && git checkout master