How Does DHRIFT Work?

DHRIFT is built on a few key technologies that make it easy to create, manage, and publish DH workshops. These technologies include:

• GitHub: DHRIFT uses GitHub to store and manage workshop content. Each workshop is stored in a GitHub repository, which contains the workshop’s markdown files, images, and other assets. GitHub also provides version control, so you can track changes to your workshop content over time.

• Markdown: DHRIFT uses Markdown to write workshop content. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that is easy to read and write. It allows you to format text, add images, and create links without having to write HTML.

• YAML: DHRIFT uses YAML to configure workshop metadata. YAML is a human-readable data serialization format that is easy to read and write. It allows you to specify metadata such as the workshop title, author, and description.

• React: DHRIFT’s frontend is built with React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React allows us to create interactive, responsive, and accessible interfaces for our workshops.

• WebAssembly: DHRIFT uses WebAssembly to run code snippets in the browser. WebAssembly is a low-level programming language that is designed to run fast and efficiently in web browsers. It allows us to incorporate code editors in a secure and sandboxed environment so that learners can immediately see the results of their code.

• GitHub Actions: DHRIFT uses GitHub Actions to automate the process of building and deploying workshop content. When you make changes to your workshop content, GitHub Actions will automatically build and deploy the changes to your DHRIFT site.