YURA Research Database

A research lab and fellowship discovery platform for Yale University.

Live: yalelabs.io · Beta: ylabs-dev.onrender.com

Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Client	React 19, TypeScript, Vite, TailwindCSS, MUI
Server	Express 4, TypeScript, Passport.js (Yale CAS)
Database	MongoDB Atlas (Mongoose 8)
Search	Meilisearch (hybrid: keyword + semantic via OpenAI embedder)
Package Manager	Yarn 4 via Corepack

corepack enable
yarn install:all

Create server/.env and client/.env — see the Developer Guide for required variables.

# Terminal 1
yarn dev:client

# Terminal 2
yarn dev:server

Go to http://localhost:3000. Use http://localhost:4000/api/dev-login to bypass CAS auth locally.

See DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md for full setup instructions, architecture details, environment configuration, and contribution guidelines.

Thanks @wu-json for creating a CAS authentication demo.

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.github/workflows		.github/workflows
.idea		.idea
client		client
data-migration		data-migration
server		server
web-scraper		web-scraper
.gitignore		.gitignore
.prettierignore		.prettierignore
.prettierrc		.prettierrc
.yarnrc.yml		.yarnrc.yml
CLAUDE.md		CLAUDE.md
DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md		DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md
README.md		README.md
abbreviations.txt		abbreviations.txt
departments.txt		departments.txt
eslint.config.js		eslint.config.js
faculty_data.json		faculty_data.json
package.json		package.json
update_rdb.py		update_rdb.py
valid_departments.txt		valid_departments.txt
yale_history_faculty.json		yale_history_faculty.json
yale_medicine_labs.json		yale_medicine_labs.json
yale_physics_faculty_10.json		yale_physics_faculty_10.json
yale_physics_people.csv		yale_physics_people.csv
yale_physics_people.json		yale_physics_people.json
yale_physics_people_10.json		yale_physics_people_10.json
yarn.lock		yarn.lock