Web Technologies Used by hunua.school.nz

Nginx is a web server and reverse proxy software. It is also used as a load balancer, HTTP cache and a mail proxy server. It is open source and free, and is known for its high performance and stability. Nginx is designed to handle a large number of concurrent connections and can easily scale to meet the needs of a high-traffic website. It is used by some of the world's most popular websites, including Netflix, WordPress, and Dropbox.

OpenResty is a web platform that aims to run server-side web app completely in the Nginx server, leveraging Nginx's event model to do non-blocking I/O not only with the HTTP clients, but also with remote backends like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, and Redis.

Phusion Passenger is a free web server and application server with support for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages.

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License.

jQuery UI is a collection of GUI widgets, animated visual effects, and themes implemented with jQuery, Cascading Style Sheets, and HTML.

core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.

lit-element is a simple base class for creating web components that work in any web page with any framework. lit-element uses lit-html to render into shadow DOM, and adds API to manage properties and attributes.

lit-html is a simple, modern, safe, small and fast HTML templating library for JavaScript.

A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have.

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and LESS. It was made for use with Twitter Bootstrap.

RackCache is a quick drop-in component to enable HTTP caching for Rack-based applications.