What is focalboard built with?
focalboard is a Go repo built with Gorilla and Mattermost. It stores its data in Postgres and SQLite, reaches it with github.com/Masterminds/squirrel and github.com/mattermost/morph, is tested with github.com/stretchr/testify, github.com/golang/mock, cypress-failed-log, @testing-library/cypress, and cypress-real-events, deploys with Prometheus and github.com/mattermost/logr/v2, and uses go-sqlite3 and pq. It has 121,787 written lines, with 251 test files.
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Backend
The base 1
- Gorilla28 files
Data 4
Data access 2
github.com/Masterminds/squirrel24 files
- github.com/mattermost/morph2 files
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