epfl-si / startpage

startpage.epfl.ch

EPFL's Start Page

About

This repository hosts the code for https://startpage.epfl.ch, a website that can be used as a browser start page.

Goals

• Provide an excellent start page for the EPFL community
• Be useful for different roles (students, researchers, admins, techies, etc...)
• Should list every useful services of EPFL
• The page must be intuitive, efficient, configurable and easy to use

Todos and ideas

• Preferences (local storage) and maybe profile by roles
• EPFL Theme (with dark mode option)
• EPFL News (actu) (with channel option)
• EPFL RDP (revue de presse)
• EPFL Calendar (memento) (with channel option)
• EPFL Services Status (with option to hide them)
• EPFL Search: should have a quick shortcut + opensearch
  • Web
  • Library
  • Plan
  • People
  • Units
  • Inside?
  • ServiceNow?
• Other Search
  • Google
  • DuckduckGo
  • Wikipedia
  • Web of science?
  • Stackoverflow?
  • Option to add new one with shortcut?
• Links
  • Tools
    • Email / calendar
    • menus / food
    • sesame
    • chronos
    • network
    • go.epfl.ch
    • blog / wiki?
  • Social
    • mastodon
    • facebook
    • 𝕏
    • instagram
    • youtube
    • linkedin
  • About
  • Education
  • Research
  • Innovation
  • Schools
  • Campus
  • Practical (urgency number)
• Option to display global announcement / alerts / status

Links

• https://github.com/jnmcfly/awesome-startpage

startpage's Issues

[feature] opensearch

Generic issue to have a look on how to integrate https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch to this project.

[feature] edit settings

How one can edit the page's settings?

[feature] GitHub pages

Deploy a version on GitHub pages with GitHub actions (https://epfl-si.github.io/startpage).

[feature] catalog — UX

How to manage the catalog of links / services ?

https://eromatiya.github.io/squareup/ has good ideas (search + sort by categories).

[feature] footer

Keep it minimal.

• Link to this repository
• Version number

[feature] header

Keep it minimal.

• EPFL logo
• Icons to activate dark/light mode, preferences, etc.

[feature] catalog — update

Update the catalog list

[feature] settings in a JSON file

Create the settings.json that can be use (later) in the local storage.

{
  "settings": {
    "darkMode": true
  },
  "searchEngines": [
    {
      "name": "Google",
      "URL": "https://",
      "icon": "https://",
      "keyword": "?"
    }
  ],
  "modules": [
   ...
   ]
}

[feature] help

Display a "modal" with some help when pressing esc.

[feature] widgets

How to integrate widgets in the homepage ?

Widgets can be meteo, EPFL news, Time, etc...

[fix] Hide cookie consent banner

[feature] minimal node version

Specify the node version in package.json with the engines attribute.

[feature] dark mode

Add a light / dark mode button.

[feature] "logo" + favicon

I like flying saucers 🛸🛸🛸.

[feature] implements some tests

Maybe with https://playwright.dev/ ?