Snowflake is Medium's tool for planning and supporting our engineers' career development. You can read more about how we use this tool in our growth framework documentation. Our growth tool is hosted publicly.
You are free to use, change and build on this work to make it useful for your organisation. We will happily consider unencumbered code contributions to improve functionality, but as this is the actual tool we use within Medium, acceptance is likely to be intentional, and deliberate. Meaning, slow. As such, you may prefer to fork the codebase for your own needs. We will not accept any contributions that modify the text of the application (but, thank you in advance for pointing out any typos).
Get yarn if you don’t have it already:
npm install -g yarn
Install dependencies:
yarn
yarn dev
yarn export
This will put a static version of the site in out/.
Run yarn dev to host static files on localhost:3000. Then run Cubicle on localhost:8080. For expedited development, 1. we hardcoded snowflake to make requests to localhost:8080, and 2. we made a change to Cubicle to accept requests from any origin. This is hacky and we should fix this issue.
- Load initial data from a file, to improve flexibility.
- Add restricted job title selection and validation.
- Consider moving this tool to Cubicle completely - see the
Running with Cubicle Backendsection.