Hi @thefarmfresh,

The Community website (the one you’re currently on) is a custom developed Ruby on Rails application built in-house. It’s actually quite a slow app for page loading, but some layers of caching help improve that, plus we serve AMP pages for mobile, which are much faster as they are heavily cached and have a light frontend. As for the database, there is a PostgreSQL DB powering the app, as well as Redis & Sidekiq for async tasks generated by the app.

In terms of the frontend for the site, we don’t use any frameworks for styling, everything is custom developed like the app itself, over the many years the app has been worked on. We do use jQuery though for some our of JS logic that gives the app its frontend interactivity. (We’re working to slowly remove jQuery, its such bloat).

Hope that helps, happy to answer any subsequent questions.
- Matt, Community Platform Manager.