Portaljs

The City of Kyle, TX has an open data portal. That already puts it ahead of most cities its size: budgets, investment reports, police data, water utilities, all published. But like a lot of municipal portals, it runs on a hosted catalog platform that feel

A data portal is only as good as the data in it. And real data is big - multi-hundred-megabyte CSVs, Parquet files, GeoJSON boundaries. The moment you try to put that in a git repo, things break: GitHub rejects files over 100 MB, clones balloon, and your

PortalJS is now the AI-native, open-source framework for building data portals. Spin one up with a single command, then work with an AI agent that runs PortalJS skills to assemble the rest - and what comes out is plain Next.js code you own. No lock-in, an

!TL;DR We're building what we believe should be the best civic data portal on the web - and we're doing the research to back it up. This article is the first in an ongoing series documenting that process: studying real civic portals in the wild, identifyi

If you're managing a data portal on CKAN(https://ckan.org) and considering a move to PortalJS Cloud, one of the first questions you'll have is: what happens to my APIs? Your dashboards, external applications, and third-party integrations likely depend on

Geospatial data is increasingly central to government and research portals. If you are evaluating PortalJS Cloud for a portal that includes maps, shapefiles, or location-based datasets, this is a clear breakdown of what works out of the box and what requi

Datopian built CKAN(https://ckan.org/). We still maintain it. It powers thousands of data portals worldwide, including portals run by the UK government(https://data.gov.uk/), the US federal government(https://data.gov/), and major international institutio

Two distinct questions often arrive bundled together when organizations ask about private datasets in PortalJS Cloud: 1. Can publishers preview what a dataset page will look like before making it public? 2. Can authenticated end-users access private datas

If your organization has in-house developers and wants to customize the look and feel of your PortalJS Cloud portal, you can. PortalJS Cloud is built on open-source foundations(https://www.portaljs.com/opensource): the codebase is available on GitHub(http

Data portals were built to make information accessible. In practice, most users still struggle to find answers. They must search through datasets, understand metadata, download files, and often write queries before they can extract a single insight. The d