Design and Components

Infrastructure diagram

Image: Thunor Web software infrastructure. Users access Thunor Web through a web browser. Thunor Core produces plots using the plotly library, which can be delivered through Thunor Web. On the server, Thunor Web runs in multiple Docker containers: nginx web server, PostgreSQL database, and application server. The application server runs uWSGI and Django, a Python web application framework, which interfaces with Thunor Core. Encryption certificates are generated using Certbot in a separate container, run on demand. Static files (CSS, Javascript etc.) are compiled into bundles using Webpack to improve server performance. Error reporting and aggregation use the Sentry platform. The server system is "orchestrated" using Docker Compose.

List of software components

The following is an alphabetical list of software components used in Thunor Core and Thunor Web.

Component	Role
Bootstrap	Front end layout
Certbot	TLS certificate provisioning
Datatables	Interactive web tables
Django	Web application framework
Docker	Application containers
Docker Compose	Multi-container orchestration
Docker Machine	Remote control and deployment
jQuery	Front end interactivity
Nginx	Web server
Numpy	Numerical operations
Pandas	Data manipulation
Plotly	Plot rendering, interactivity
PostgreSQL	Relational database
Redis	Cache
Scipy	Curve fitting, statistics
Sphinx	Code documentation
Sentry	Error aggregation, logging
uWSGI	Application server
Webpack	Static file bundling

Database Entity Relationship Diagram

Image: Entity relationship diagram for Thunor Web's relational database. Each box shows a database table with its fields. Foreign key relationships are denoted by lines terminated with circles, inheritance is denoted by arrows.