Refactoring and Search Functionality for Open Sustainable Technology

[Ly0n]

Refactoring and Search Functionality for Open Sustainable Technology

[Ly0n]

@jtorreggiani As promised, here is the issue on the redesign of the website.

[NathanBaulch]

according to criteria such as "programming languages"

Yes please, this was the very first thing I wanted to do after stumbling on this project. I'm open to learning new languages but would ideally hit the ground running with a language I already know.

[Ly0n]

according to criteria such as "programming languages"

Yes please, this was the very first thing I wanted to do after stumbling on this project. I'm open to learning new languages but would ideally hit the ground running with a language I already know.

At the moment you can use the AirTable to sort for "programming languages" . So far, however, we have not found anyone who integrates a search function for the database into the website.

[rjbergerud]

Airtable offers both a filter and a search functionality.

Any reason to not just embed the airtable? Or were you thinking the interface isn't intuitive enough?

[Ly0n]

Thanks, @rjbergerud, for bringing this topic up again. You are absolutely right that the AirTable comes with all the search features one needs. In the past I had always hoped that we could replace AirTable an open source alternative like Datasette or NocoDB. Unfortunately, these variants always have to be hosted by yourself and so far I haven't had the time to look into them. Until we have found a better alternative, it makes sense to integrate the AirTable variant better. Here is the current integration with an iframe: https://opensustain.tech/discover/. What do you think about it?

Unfortunately I don't manage to fill the whole tab of the website. Any idea how to extend the iframe to the whole tab?

Edit:
I opened a discussion on how to customize the template of the website here: squidfunk/mkdocs-material#4188

[Ly0n]

There is one more problem with AirTable. A "base" has to be updated manually every time. AirTable does not inherently offer automatic synchronization with a CSV URL. The third-party applications I have found so far do not work reliably. The lack of such standard features is typical for closed source projects.