Overview

We have identified the following direct external dependencies:

• Bulma, used as the base CSS framework for the frontend.
• CarrierWave, used as a library for handling uploaded images and generating thumbnails.
• Dart Sass, used for compiling user-facing CSS.
• Devise, used for authenticating customers and administrators.
• Font Awesome, used for iconography.
• jQuery, used as a JavaScript framework for optional enhancement of the Administrator Panel.
• OmniAuth, used for communicating with external systems for user authentication.
• OmniAuth Apple, used as an OmniAuth provider for Sign In with Apple support.
• OmniAuth Facebook, used as an OmniAuth provider for Sign In with Facebook support.
• OmniAuth SAML, used as an OmniAuth provider for SAML based administrator sign in support.
• PostgreSQL, used as the database storage system.
• RuboCop, used to ensure adherence to best practices and catch some types of security issues in a static scan.
• Ruby on Rails, used as the Web application framework.

We have identified these indirect external dependencies:

• Hotwire, used as a site-wide JavaScript framework.
• ImageMagick, used by MiniMagick for image processing.
• MiniMagick, used for generating thumbnails with the CarrierWave library.
• omniauth-rails_csrf_protection, used to prevent CSRF attacks on OmniAuth forms.
• Puma, used as the interface between Rack and the TLS terminator.
• Ruby SAML, used by omniauth-saml to process SAML.

The following development-only dependencies are outside of the scope of this document, but are still mentioned here for full system documentation.

• FactoryBot, used for creating mock objects in the test suite.
• RSpec, used for the test suite.
• SimpleCov, used for generating test suite coverage data.
• SQLite 3, used in the development and test environments to ensure future portability to other RDBMS if necessary.