April 2022¶

Published on May 1, 2022

Welcome to our April 2022 update! This month brought continued progress in the Challenge Registry platform with 15 pull requests merged to the main branch. Our development efforts were led by @tschaffter and @rrchai, focusing on foundational development tools, platform architecture, and user experience enhancements.

Summary¶

Total Pull Requests: 15 merged PRs
Key Focus: Development environment standardization and testing infrastructure
Major Projects: Challenge Registry platform development, HTML linting integration, UI component improvements

Technical architecture overview¶

Development environment standardization¶

April marked significant progress in establishing consistent development environments across the monorepo. We upgraded our development container infrastructure and implemented standardized tooling to ensure all contributors have access to the same development experience.

Quality assurance framework expansion¶

We expanded our testing and linting capabilities by introducing HTML linting through webhint, complementing our existing JavaScript and TypeScript quality checks. This addition ensures our web applications maintain high standards for accessibility and semantic correctness.

Platform infrastructure evolution¶

The Challenge Registry platform continued to grow with new page components and routing infrastructure. We established the foundation for challenge and organization search functionality, setting the stage for comprehensive challenge discovery features.

User interface enhancement initiatives¶

Focused improvements to the About page styling and component testing coverage demonstrate our commitment to both user experience and code quality. These enhancements ensure our platform remains both visually appealing and technically robust.

Pull requests merged¶

Challenge Registry platform development¶

#135: Add org search page
#134: Add challenge search page
#133: Add Challenge page
#139: Update styling on About page

Development environment and tooling¶

#161: Add 4g memory requirement for devcontainer
#160: Add vscode extension to manage GH PRs
#148: Use dev container image sagebionetworks/python-3-node:0.2.0
#128: Update dev container to v0.1.0

Testing and quality assurance¶

#153: Increase TS coverage for ui library
#152: Add --runInBand to jest testing on large components
#138: Add HTML linter

Documentation and governance¶

#140: Add documentation Using Nx
#142: Update codeowners
#132: Re-use CoC from Sage-Bionetworks/developer-handbook
#131: Use Sage Code of Conduct

Community impact¶

April's contributions demonstrate our commitment to building a robust development ecosystem that supports both current and future platform growth. The focus on development environment standardization ensures that new contributors can quickly become productive, while our expanded testing infrastructure maintains the high quality standards essential for research platform reliability.

The establishment of challenge and organization search page foundations represents a significant step toward making biomedical challenges more discoverable and accessible to the research community.

Thank you¶

Last but certainly not least, a big Thank You to the contributors of the Sage monorepo.

We're building something amazing together, and every contribution moves us closer to our vision of advancing biomedical research through innovative technology platforms. Join us in shaping the future of collaborative research.