Risposta

Risposta is a next-generation open-source forum platform for educational institutions.

Features

• Google-Powered user authentication and authorization
• Create and view posts within a class
• Comment on posts and reply to comments
• Upvote and downvote posts and comments
• Tag posts with relevant categories
• Anonymous posting option
• Instructor-specific visibility setting for posts
• Editing and deleting posts
• General FAQ page
• Class management functionality

User guide

Log in or sign up with your Google account on https://risposta.org. That's it! Create a class or join an existing one to start posting and interacting with your peers.

Self-hosting guide

Make sure to install Deno: https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/installation

Rispota is built in fresh. To learn more you can follow the Fresh "Getting Started" guide here: https://fresh.deno.dev/docs/getting-started

Then start the project:

deno task start

This will watch the project directory and restart as necessary.

Specific Project Structure

• routes/: Contains the route handlers for different pages and API endpoints.
• routes/api: Contains the route handlers for the API endpoints.
• islands/: Contains the interactive components used in the application.
• components/: Contains the re-used components used in the application.
• lib/: Contains utility functions and modules used throughout the project.
• db/: Contains all code that interfaces directly with the database.
• static/: Contains static assets such as images and CSS files.
• docs/: Contains the scrum documents and other project-related documents.

The surface level contains basic configurations and infrastructure-task related files.

Acknowledgements

• Fresh - The web framework used for building the application.
• Deno - The runtime for executing the application.
• Supabase - The open-source Firebase alternative used for the database and authentication.