Glossary
What the technical terms used on this website mean.
- API
- A way for two programs to exchange data, such as a website and a mobile app.
- CMS
- Content management system: the tool a team uses to edit and publish a website's pages without programming.
- Core
- The central part of Drupal, maintained by the Drupal project, to which modules add features.
- Drupal
- An open source CMS used for the portals of universities, public bodies and other institutions.
- EAS
- Expo Application Services: Expo's services for building mobile apps and publishing their updates.
- Expo
- A platform for building iPhone and Android apps with React Native.
- Gin
- An administration theme for Drupal: it sets the look of the pages where the site is edited.
- Layout Paragraphs
- A Drupal module for building a page by adding and dragging components.
- Single sign-on
- Signing in to several systems with one account, instead of creating one for each.
- Module
- An extension that adds a feature to Drupal without changing its core.
- Open source
- Software whose code anyone can use, study and improve.
- React Native
- A technology for building iPhone and Android apps from the same code.
- Solr
- An open source search engine, used on sites with a lot of content.
- WCAG
- International accessibility guidelines for web content, published by the W3C.