# datopian/portaljs

🌀 AI-native framework for building data portals. Scaffold a full portal from a brief and load datasets in minutes with agentic skills — any backend (CKAN, GitHub, Frictionless).

Repository: https://github.com/datopian/portaljs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/portaljs
Homepage: https://www.portaljs.com
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: data-portal, ckan, nextjs, open-data-portal, data-mesh, datahub, open-data, openmetadata, dataverse, dkan, opendatasoft, socrata, ai, ai-agents, agent-skills, claude-code, mcp, skills
Last push: 2026-08-25T07:16:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 96/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 89, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5437, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 76, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2344, forks 334 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:39.685381+00:00)

## What it is
PortalJS is an open-source, AI-native framework for building data portals on plain Next.js + Tailwind, with Claude Code agentic skills that scaffold the portal, load datasets, and connect backends like CKAN. Output is ordinary editable code with no lock-in, deployable as a static site to any host or Datopian's managed Arc hosting.

## Use cases
- build an open data portal for a city council
- publish a dataset catalog with search and dataset pages
- connect a frontend to an existing CKAN backend
- render CSV/JSON datasets with tables, charts, and maps
- scaffold a data portal from a plain-language description using an AI agent
- deploy a static data portal to Cloudflare or any static host
- migrate an existing data portal to a modern Next.js stack

## When to choose
- you need a customizable open data or dataset catalog portal without vendor lock-in
- you want AI-assisted scaffolding but with plain editable Next.js code as output
- you need to integrate with CKAN, DKAN, OpenMetadata, DataHub, or GitHub data sources
- you want a static-export portal that is cheap and simple to host

## When to avoid
- you need server-side rendering or dynamic server features — Arc hosting is static-only
- you want a turnkey managed portal with RBAC and metadata standards out of the box without self-managing code
- your team doesn't use Node.js or Next.js
- you need a full enterprise data catalog platform rather than a portal frontend

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, static-site-generator, data-visualization, search-engine, agent-framework, mcp, charts, geospatial
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: cli, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: data-portal, nextjs, ckan, open-data, claude-code-skills, agentic-scaffolding, datasets, tailwind, static-export, data-catalog, data-engineering, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- datopian/portaljs (main) score 96

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:39.685381+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:37:04.368267+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/datopian/portaljs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:39.685381+00:00, sha 0e0160403c57)
  - homepage: https://www.portaljs.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.833772+00:00, sha 8ec142757c60)
  - site_page: https://www.portaljs.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.842993+00:00, sha f35b5edf2807)
  - site_page: https://www.portaljs.com/docs/guides/scaling-data (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.846442+00:00, sha d982ea94dbf2)
  - site_page: https://www.portaljs.com/docs/arc (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.848338+00:00, sha e78e9cff8854)
  - site_page: https://portaljs.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.850592+00:00, sha 15b3ba43e768)
  - site_page: https://www.portaljs.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.844716+00:00, sha 25d04af75ffd)
  - site_page: https://www.portaljs.com/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T10:17:58.852551+00:00, sha f3deb651ad6b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.