This is the repository for the Minard backend. The project is in a prototype stage and under active development.

Minard is a preview service that integrates with version control, automatically building and deploying each version of your project. Minard makes it easy to share functional versions of quick web projects for feedback.

The backend consists of many services that are composed together to form the Minard backend. This repository contains only the code for the main backend service, charles, whereas the code for other backend services are in their own repositories.

In addition to charles, the backend consists of the following services:

• Forked GitLab CE
• Forked GitLab Runner
• Screenshotter
• Redis
• Postgresql

The backend is intended to be run together with minard-ui.

• Motivation
• Architecture
• Authentication
• User and team administration
• Administration
• Development
• Testing
• Charles API
• Contributing

Thank you to the Google Digital News Inititiative and Helsingin Sanomat Foundation for supporting our work on the Minard prototype.