Sky Governance Portal

This is the repo containing the code for the Sky Governance Portal. The Sky Governance Portal is an open-source interface for governance of the Sky protocol.
Copyright Dai Foundation 2022.

To run locally:

While the portal is hosted by Sky at https://vote.makerdao.com, it can also be run by anyone on their local machine.

In order to run the project locally, you must have the following installed on the machine:

• Node, version 24 or greater (install)

To get started, clone the repository to the desired directory and then navigate into the project folder:

# clones repo
git clone https://github.com/makerdao/sky-governance-portal.git

# changes directory to cloned project folder
cd sky-governance-portal

Next, install the project's dependencies using pnpm:

# installs dependencies
pnpm i

# runs the application on localhost:3000
pnpm dev

At this point, you should be able to access the application by going to the address http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Releasing

To do releases of the governance portal, please use npm version minor or npm version patch to bump the version in the package.json and create a tag.

The tag and versioning should be done on development, and then merged to main through a PR. To push your local tag use the command git push origin development --follow-tags.

Additional configuration overview:

Content

The portal seeks to rely on on-chain data as much as possible and to minimize reliance on data stored on centralized servers. However, due to the large volume of data that is relevant to Sky governance, fetching this data from on-chain is both time and resource-intensive. In order to improve the user's experience, some reliance on third-party services has been added, and we recommend a few configuration steps for optimal use. These services include:

• GitHub for storing markdown related to polls, executives, and delegates

Network providers

The portal uses the Wagmi library in order to communicate with the Ethereum network through its React hooks, and Viem in order to do so through its public client as well as provide Web3 utilities. Both Wagmi and Viem work by connecting to JSON-RPC APIs via HTTP in order to provide on-chain data to web applications. By default, they provide default RPC URLs that can be used to get started. However, these RPCs keys can quickly become rate-limited when too many requests are made. In order to prevent this, it is recommended that you sign up and add your own API keys to the configuration.

Due to the large volume of data that is constantly being fetched and displayed in the portal, we use caching in order to cache various network responses for a limited amount of time. This helps to reduce the load of networking calls to various APIs. This feature can be configured to be on or off.

Configuration steps:

To begin, create a local .env file in the project's root directory. The .env.sample file can be used as a template.

The following configuration values can be added to the .env file:

Recommended for improved performance:

• Set NEXT_PUBLIC_RPC_MAINNET to a valid Ethereum mainnet RPC URL (e.g. from Alchemy, Infura, Tenderly, etc)

• Set NEXT_PUBLIC_RPC_ARBITRUM to a valid Arbitrum mainnet RPC URL

• Set NEXT_PUBLIC_RPC_ARBITRUM_TESTNET to a valid Arbitrum testnet RPC URL

• Set ETHERSCAN_V2_API_KEY to a valid Etherscan V2 API key for Wagmi to be able to generate the contract ABIs

• Set USE_CACHE to true if you want to use cache, if REDIS_URL is set it will use REDIS otherwise filesystem cache

• Set GASLESS_DISABLED to true to disable gasless voting in UI (pre-check endpoint will fail)

• Set NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_ENV to development to use staging data sources (subgraphs and GitHub repos)

Optional (DUX-specific config, no performance improvements):

• Set MIGRATION_WEBHOOK_URL for sending migration requests to discord

• Set GASLESS_WEBHOOK_URL for sending gasless vote requests to discord

Required for gasless voting Set PRIVY_APP_ID, PRIVY_APP_SECRET, and PRIVY_WEBHOOK_SIGNING_SECRET for the Privy server-wallet relayer Required for gasless voting Set PRIVY_WALLET_ID_MAINNET and/or PRIVY_WALLET_ID_TESTNET to the Privy wallet id used to sign gasless poll votes Optional Set GASLESS_BACKDOOR_SECRET to allow for bypassing the gasless voting eligibility checks by anyone with the password

• Set DASHBOARD_PASSWORD for adding protection to the /dashboard route

Required for e2e:

• Set TENDERLY_API_KEY to be able to run e2e tests against forked network
• Set TENDERLY_MAINNET_FORK_VNET_ID to the ID of the Tenderly VNet used as the fork source

Tests

The Governance portal includes two test suites: Vitest and E2E

To run e2e, TENDERLY_API_KEY and TENDERLY_MAINNET_FORK_VNET_ID must be correctly configured.

Install playwright pnpm playwright install

To run headless mode: pnpm e2e

To run in UI mode: pnpm dev:mock to run the app with mock wallet pnpm e2e:ui to open playwright UI

Vitest tests under the folder __tests__ currently execute unit tests of the platform.

Test commands

Vitest:

# runs Vitest tests on live-reload mode
npm run test

# runs all the Vitest tests
npm run test:ci

CI/CD

The CI/CD system is integrated with Github Actions.

After each push the system will execute:

• Lint, verify type consistency

• Unit test, execute Vitest test suite

npm run start:ci

Contributing

See our contributing guide.