CKAN is your backend, not your frontend
📰 Dev.to · Anuar Ustayev
Learn how to properly utilize CKAN as a backend for data portals, and why it's not suitable as a frontend solution
Action Steps
- Use CKAN as a backend data management system
- Integrate a custom frontend framework with CKAN's API
- Configure CKAN's data storage and retrieval settings
- Build a custom data portal using a framework like PortalJS
- Test and deploy the data portal with CKAN as the backend
Who Needs to Know This
Data engineers, developers, and data portal administrators can benefit from understanding the role of CKAN in their data portal architecture, to design and implement scalable and efficient data portals
Key Insight
💡 CKAN is a powerful backend tool, but it's not designed to handle frontend tasks, so use a custom frontend framework to build your data portal
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Learn how to properly utilize CKAN as a backend for data portals, and why it's not suitable as a frontend solution
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