Application: finder-frontend

Serves finder and search pages for GOV.UK

• GitHub: finder-frontend
• Ownership: #find-and-view-tech
• Hosting: AWS, on the calculators_frontend machine class
• Category: Frontend apps
• Rake tasks: Run a Rake task on Integration, Staging or ⚠️ Production ⚠️
• Links:
  • Sentry (error tracking)
  • Puppet configuration
  • Deploy scripts
  • Deployment dashboard
  • Publishing E2E scenarios (warning: not all apps have E2E tests)
  • Component guide

Imported documents

• Analytics
• Developing a Finder
• Finder email alerts
• How search works
• Registries
• The Finder Content Item Format
• faceted-search
• pull_request_template

Example pages rendered by finder-frontend

• Search
• Contact HM Revenue & Customs
• News and communications
• Finance and support for your business
• Services
• Research and statistics
• Guidance and regulation
• Employment tribunal decisions
• Policy papers and consultations
• Countryside Stewardship grants

README

Renders search on GOV.UK:

• Site search is available from the header of every page.
• Finder pages provide facetted searching over a collection of documents.
• Most of these pages support subscribing to email alerts.

Live examples

• gov.uk/aaib-reports
• gov.uk/drug-device-alerts
• gov.uk/government/case-studies
• gov.uk/government/people
• gov.uk/world/organisations
• gov.uk/international-development-funding

Nomenclature

• Finder: Page containing a list of filterable documents and filters.
• Facets: Metadata associated with documents. See app/models/*_facet.rb for examples.
• Filters: Searchable/filterable metadata for example case_state={open|closed} for a CMA case.
• Parser: Transforms API responses into model objects.

Technical documentation

This is a Ruby on Rails app, and should follow our Rails app conventions.

You can use the GOV.UK Docker environment or the local startup.sh script to run the app. Read the guidance on local frontend development to find out more about each approach, before you get started.

If you are using GOV.UK Docker, remember to combine it with the commands that follow. See the GOV.UK Docker usage instructions for examples.

Running the test suite

# run all the tests
bundle exec rake

# run only feature tests
bundle exec cucumber

# run only JS tests
bundle exec rake jasmine:ci

Further documentation

See the docs/ directory for manuals and instructions.

License

MIT License