Commonweal Magazine Technology Stack

Action Network is an advocacy tool built for organizers.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery web service.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. Its built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Drupal 7 is a free and open-source web content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

New Relic provides real-time performance insights into software, infrastructure and customer experience so software-driven businesses can innovate faster. New Relic cuts through the complexity and risk associated with digital transformation.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Cloud based storage systems by AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

IIS (Internet Information Services) is an extensible web server created by Microsoft for use with Windows NT family

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin.

jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a web browser.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.

Cvent provides online event planning and management, web survey and email marketing software for event planners, attendees and hospitality venues across industries, globally. The software supports the entire event lifecycle, from marketing and initial registration through to event check in & beyond.

Google Drive is a cloud storage and backup platform to access files, docs, photos & more, store them in a safe place, and collaborate with other people.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

Zoom is a scalable cloud based video conferencing & web conferencing platform enabling online meetings, webinars, file sharing, group messaging and more.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

MailChimp list management features help users organize and target their list for sending. They automatically remove bounce backs and unsubscribes from their list.

ProSel is a sales force automation and mobile order management app that manages all the critical functions of users outside sales force and customers. ProSel allows users to build and send sales orders, browse and search a 75,000-item catalog offline and manage all sales-related content.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

New Relic One is an entity-centric observability platform that collects and contextualizes all operational data—from any source—and simplifies instrumentation, data ingestion, exploration, correlation, and machine learning-powered analysis to support observability for every organization.

Shopify is a commerce platform to help you build a secure and customizable ecommerce website for your brand.

Stripe is an online payment processing tool for internet businesses. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to their bank account. Meticulously designed APIs and functionality help users create the best possible product for their users.

Stripe Connect provides a powerful API and other tools needed to accept payments, as well as onboard, verify, and pay sellers and service providers. Users can tailor integration in various ways.

Submittable is a submissions platform that can be used to accept, review and manage school admissions and job applications amongst others.