Voluntarily Tool Suite

These are the tools we use

Communication

• Slack - internal team messaging
• Gitter - external chatroom & messaging, all contributors
• WhatsApp - phone and non business chatter
• Google Meet - Video conferences
• Skype - when required

Collaboration

• Google Docs - internal team, formal documents: slides, sheets, words etc.
• Atlassian Confluence - open team documentation

Development

• Programming Language - Javascript
• Node
• Git - Source code management
• GitHub - Source code repository
• MongoDB
• IDE - any, but we recommend VS Code.

Common IDE Plugins

• Atlassian Jira and Bitbucket - brings Jira tickets into IDE
• Azure Cosmos DB - view onto the database
• JS Standard - code quality and lint checker
• GitLens - view into github

Notable Production Node libraries

• Babel - Browser Compatability
• CASL - API Security
• Uppy - Image uploader
• Next - Core framework - server side rendering
• AntDesign - UI Components and CSS
• Auth0 - Authentication and User registration
• Express - Web server
• Intl - Internationalisation
• Moment - date and time utilities
• Mongoose/ Mongoose Crudify - MongoDB library
• Nodemailer - email
• Quill - Rich text editor
• React - client side component framework
• Redux/ReactRedux - client side state management
• Styled-compenents - CSS

Notable Development Node libraries

• Ava - Test framework
• Axios - API calls
• eslint - syntax checker
• codecov - code coverage (cloud side)
• enzyme - react test
• fetch-mock - mock for api calls
• mongodb-memory-server - mock for mongodb
• nyc - code coverage (developer side)
• redux-ava/redux-mock-store - mock for redux
• sinon - test utils
• standard - syntax checker
• supertest - server api test
• testcafe - end to end testing

Design,

Testing,

• AVA - unit and functional tests
• Enzyme - react support
• TestCafe - end to end testing
• BrowserStack - cloud service for browser and mobile emulation and testing.

CI/CD - Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

• Docker & Docker-compose - application containers
• CirrusCI - cloud service for CI/CD plug in to GitHub
• CodeCov - cloud service for code coverage monitoring

Cloud Services

• AWS - ECR, Elastic Container Registry - stores docker images
• AWS - ECS, Elastic Container Service - docker hosting
• AWS - S3, file storage for uploaded images
• AWS - SES, Simple Email Service, SMTP server
• AWS - Cloudwatch, logging and monitoring
• MongoDB - Atlas, database as a service. (https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas)
• Auth0 - Identity Management Service  (https://auth0.com/)

AWS Regions

• ap-southeast-1, Singapore - Alpha site
  
• ap-southeast-2, Sydney - Beta site
  

Project management,

• Atlassian Jira - open project issue tracking (https://voluntarily.atlassian.net/)
  
• Asana - internal project and task management

Content & Content Management System

• Squarespace