The RentSmart Boston Dashboard is a housing violations search tool to help prospective tenants in Boston.

The City of Boston provides compiled data on housing violations, building violations, enforcement violations, housing complaints, sanitation requests, and/or civic maintenance requests. The City releases this data through Analyze Boston and they provide a Tableau dashboard to allow users to search the data.

This dashboard is an entirely independent effort to make the RentSmart Boston data more useable via a web-first approach. The advantages of this include:

• Accessibility and responsiveness: Frameworks like Vue make it easier to create accessible and mobile-friendly dashboards that work well on all devices. Tableau's web interface can be more limited in responsiveness.
• More flexibility and control over the frontend: With web frameworks, developers have full control over the JavaScript framework powering the frontend. This allows for more customization and interactivity compared to Tableau's more rigid web interface.
• Lower cost: Most web frameworks are free, while Tableau requires expensive licensing, especially when government organization answer to taxpayers.
• Civic Open Source: By releasing projects that use open source software, governments can help drive innovation. Open collaboration leads to better software that benefits all parties.

• vuejs/core
• vitejs/vite
• vuejs/router
• mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
• vuejs/pinia
• tailwindlabs/tailwindcss
• postcss/postcss
• postcss/autoprefixer

Contributions are welcome. This project uses yarn.

Install all dependencies: $ yarn install

Run the development server: $ yarn dev

Build all packages: $ yarn build

The source code in this repository is licensed under GNU GPLv3.