Web Technologies Used by printedmatter.org

Cowboy is a small, fast, modern HTTP server with support for Websocket, HTTP/2 and REST.

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.

Facebook Login is a way for people to create accounts and log into your app across multiple platforms.

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

Braintree, a division of PayPal, specializes in mobile and web payment systems for ecommerce companies. Braintree provides clients with a merchant account and a payment gateway.

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages.

Mailchimp is a marketing automation platform and an email marketing service.

Hammer.js is a small, standalone javascript-library that enables multitouch gestures like swipe, pinch, rotate, tap and drag on mobile devices.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library which is designed to detect HTML5 and CSS3 features in various browsers, which lets JavaScript avoid using unimplemented features or use a workaround such as a shim to emulate them. Modernizr aims to provide this feature detection in a complete and standardized manner.

Moment.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that removes the need to use the native JavaScript Date object directly.

Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and pagination (infinite scrolling) of results.

Underscore.js is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks. It is comparable to features provided by Prototype.js and the Ruby language, but opts for a functional programming design instead of extending object prototypes.

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.

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in applications.

Websites that have a shopping cart or checkout page, either using a known ecommerce platform or a custom solution.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. It provides valuable insights into website traffic, user behavior, and marketing performance. With Google Analytics, you can gain insights into your website’s audience, their location, the pages they visit, the content they view, and more. Google Analytics also offers powerful segmentation capabilities and advanced reporting features, allowing you to create custom reports and better understand your website’s performance.

The enhanced ecommerce plug-in for analytics.js enables the measurement of user interactions with products on ecommerce websites across the user's shopping experience, including: product impressions, product clicks, viewing product details, adding a product to a shopping cart, initiating the checkout process, transactions, and refunds.

Twitter Ads is an advertising platform for Twitter 'microblogging' system.

Convert Experiences is an enterprise A/B testing and personalisation solution for conversion optimisation and data-driven decisions in high-traffic websites.