Portal++ - A Better Client for BlackBaud's Learning Management System

Prototype

portalplus.tech

Features/Goals

• Faster load speed
• Kanban-style assignment center
• Dark mode
• Better mobile UI
• Multiple themes, which use CSS variables
• No jQuery
• Remembers last visited page
• username autofill
• no two-step login page
• API Docs (low priority)
• Open-Source (GPLv3)

development

prerequisites

netlify-cli must be installed

live-server must be installed

yarn must be installed

dev environment

• go to the project directory (where you've cloned this repo)
• run yarn install
• run netlify dev
  • this will start a live dev server on port 8888 (by default)
  • port 5500 must be available or it WILL NOT WORK
  • if you really need port 5500 for something else, replace every instance of 5500 in netlify.toml with your own port
  • the frontend will be hosted at /frontend/, but when this is deployed, it'll be in /

Recommended:

• set user.debug_mode to true
• give user.default_description a value (can be fetched from test_data/test_description.txt)
• install an editor plugin similar to this one for viewing the todos

contributing

• add stuff
• fix bugs
• etc
• make a pull request
• if it adds jQuery you die
• indent with tabs
• otherwise it will probably be merged