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Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement (MAPLE)

A legislative testimony project through Code for Boston!

We are creating a new web platform called MAPLE (the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement) that makes it easy for residents to submit their testimony to the MA legislature and read the testimony of others. Our goals are to shine a light on the statehouse by 1) providing a public archive of legislative testimony; 2) standardizing and demystifying the testimony process, so that more people can make their voices heard; and 3) creating a space for constituents and legislators to maintain prolonged focus on key issues, and to learn more efficiently about the laws that will shape our lives. Through this, we hope that people can better channel their political energy into productive improvements for our local and state communities.

Essentials

Join the Code for Boston Slack and our #maple-testimony channel. Ask to join the Zenhub project and to be added as a collaborator on Github, and provide your Github username.

Attend a weekly hack night at Code for Boston and join our group.

You can find good first issues here.

Check out the Contributing docs for how to contribute to the project, and the wiki for project documentation.

Links

Live Sites

  • Development site, for testing and development. Feel free to play with the site!
  • Production site, for public use and real testimony. Please only use this site to submit real testimony, not for testing.
  • Version 1 site, for posterity

Getting Started

  1. Fork a copy of the main repo to your GitHub account.

  2. Clone your fork:

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_NAME/maple.git
  1. Add the main repo to your remotes:
cd maple
git remote add upstream https://github.com/codeforboston/maple.git
git fetch upstream

Now, whenever new code is merged you can pull in changes to your local repository:

git checkout main
git pull upstream main
  1. Now you're ready to work on a feature! See the Contributing page for more info, and refer to the wiki for more documentation.

Developing Locally

  1. Make sure that you have node and yarn installed. You can download Node directly here or use a tool like nvm. To install yarn, run npm i -g yarn after installing node.
  2. Install dependencies with yarn install.
  3. If you are developing backend features involving firebase or typesense, install Docker and Docker Compose V2.
  4. Run a command and start developing:
  • yarn dev: Start the Next.js development server. Use this if you're working on frontend features. View the app in your browser at localhost:3000. Make some changes to components/ and pages/. The site will automatically update. Your local site will share the same backend as the live development site.
  • yarn storybook: Start the Storybook development server. Use this if you're working on UI components. View your storybook at localhost:6006. It will update as you make changes to the stories in stories/.
  • yarn dev:up: Run the full application locally using Docker Compose. Use this if you're working on full-stack or backend features in functions/. You can access the emulator UI at http://localhost:3010.
  • yarn dev:up:detach: Run the application, and keep it running once you stop this command.
  • yarn dev:down: Stop the application.
  • yarn dev:update: Update the application images. Run this whenever dependencies in package.json change.
  • yarn test:integration [--watch] [-t testNamePattern] [my/feature.test.ts]: Run integration tests in components/ and tests/integration/. These tests run against the full local application -- start it with yarn up. You can use --watch to rerun your tests as you change them and filter by test name and file.

Install the Redux DevTools and React DevTools browser extensions if you're developing frontend

Contributing Backend Features to Dev/Prod:

  • If you are developing backend features involving only Next.js API routes and need to deploy them to the Dev site, download Google application credentials for the dev project (you will need to be added as an editor of the project). Then, run export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=path-to-credentials.json before running yarn dev. This is necessary to authenticate the Firebase Admin SDK. The same would apply to production.

Code Formatting and Linting

We use Prettier and ESLint to check files for consistent formatting and catch common programming errors. When you send out a PR, these run as part of the Repo Checks workflow.

You can install pre-commit so that Prettier and ESLint run automatically when you commit. You can also run yarn fix locally to lint and format your code. You'll need to do one of these and commit the changes if the Linting and Formatting parts of the Code Quality check fails on your PR.

If you use VSCode, consider using our project workspace file (open it in VSCode and click the "Open Workspace" button in the editor). It will ask you to install ESLint and Prettier extensions, which will show lint errors in your editor and set up Prettier as the default code formatter. You can format the current file from the command pallete by typing Format Document. You can also set the editor up to format on save: select Open User Settings from the command pallet, search for format on save, and enable it.

Additional Documentation

See the Wiki

Contributors

Thanks to all our contributors!

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