The KBase User Interface (kbase-ui) is a web browser Single Page App (SPA) providing tools for KBase users. It is one of several user-facing interfaces at KBase.
kbase-ui has traditionally served as a container for various "plugins" which provide most of the
functionality of the interface. The current set of plugins may be found in the plugins
config.
Some examples include:
- Data Viewer, for inspecting any data object a user has access to (aka "landing pages"),
- Type Viewer, for inspecting the attributes of any data type,
- Authenticator, for logging into and out of user's KBase Account and granting authorization to the web app,
- Catalog, for browsing, searching and (for developers) managing KBase Narrative Apps.
More recently functionality has been added directly to the kbase-ui codebase,
including:
- User Profile, for viewing any user profile and editing their own,
- KBASE ORCID Link, for creating a link between a KBase account and ORCID account.
The primary audience for this project is:
- KBase Developers and Staff - who need access to the kbase-ui for development, testing, deployment
- KBase Advanced Users - who are developing services and plugins for kbase-ui,
- KBase Contributors - who wish to know more about the architecture and "sausage making" of KBase.
If you have stumbled up on this project, you may first want to find out about KBase. The KBase UI is not a general purpose tool -- it is designed to work inside the KBase ecosystem.
Generally, see the internal documentation.
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The KBase UI is an open source project, managed through GitHub. Generally this is maintained by KBase staff, through feature or fix branches which are then incorpporated through a Pull Request process.
The current released version is 3.x.x.
We do not currently use GitHub issues for bug reports. Please visit KBase Support for bug reports, questions or feature requests.