quacs / quacs-data

A repository holding all the data used on QuACS.org

QuACS - The Questionably Accurate Course Scheduler

View the live website here: https://quacs.org

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What are people saying?

quacs do be lookin pretty fresh tho — Former YACS Project Manager

"Best thing since sliced bread" — Chris Jerrett

plz dont quote me — @quacs duck — @quacs duck

QuACS Philosophy

• Course Scheduling is not that complex and can be done in the user's browser. QuACS will always be a simple static website on GitHub pages.
• QuACS should be accessible to everyone. If you have an accessibility issue, please let us know and we will try our best to fix it.
• Mobile phones should not be second class citizens. Do not hide important data from people on mobile devices.
• Open Source. Everything in QuACS is open source under the MIT License.
• Competition drives innovation. We love competition because we feel that everyone is better off because of it. Our data is not only publicly stored in this repo, but it also is easy to acquire yourself using our scrapers. We would love to see what people can do with the data!
• Your privacy is extremely important. We do not collect any identifying data and, because everything is client side, you can rest assured that nothing you upload or do on QuACS is viewable by anyone else.

Other Notes

QuACS is a proud member of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source

QuACS is not affiliated with YACS. The work they have done has been invaluable to the RPI student body and while our codebase is different, much of our design was inspired by YACS. We however also support competition and believe we provide a number of features that YACS does not. We are hoping you try us out when you register for classes next semester.

Development info

NOTE: The following commands MUST be run within the site/ directory:

Project setup

yarn install

You'll also need to install Rust and wasm-pack to build the WebAssembly components of the website. Instructions for installing wasm-pack can be found here.

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

yarn serve

Lints and fixes files

yarn lint

Run e2e tests

To start a local test server running on the correct semester for the e2e tests run:

yarn test:serve

Once the server is up and running you can launch cypress and run the tests with:

yarn test:e2e

Or run it headlessly with:

yarn test:e2e:headless

Contributing a theme

Please replace dark with your theme name

1. Make a copy of site/src/assets/styles/colors.css into the themes folder with the name dark.css
2. Import your theme in site/src/main.ts using import "@/assets/styles/themes/dark.css";
3. Replace :root { on line 1 in the new css file with [data-theme="dark"] {
4. Go to site/src/components/Settings.vue and add your theme to themeOptions in the format { value: "dark", text: "Dark" },
5. Edit the colors in your new css file and when you are ready, make a pull request!

quacs-data's Issues

Repo should auto update data using github actions

It would be really nice if the repo auto updated the data using github actions. Some of the data should update once a day other stuff like the catalog can most likely update once a week or even once a month