WesternScope

A course review and information site for Western University, inspired by uwflow.com.

What it does (v1 goals)

• Browse Western courses by code or name
• View course descriptions and prerequisites
• Sign in with a Western (@uwo.ca) email
• Leave a rating and review on courses you've taken
• See a professor's page with the courses they teach

Tech stack

• Framework: Next.js 16 (App Router) + React 19 + TypeScript
• Styling: Tailwind CSS v4
• UI components: shadcn/ui (planned)
• Database: Postgres (via Supabase)
• Auth: Supabase Auth (Google OAuth, restricted to @uwo.ca)
• Hosting: Vercel
• Course data: Python scraper of Western's academic calendar

Status

Early development. See issues and milestones for the roadmap.

Local development

Requires Node.js 20+.

npm install
npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:3000.

Other scripts:

• npm run build — production build
• npm run start — run the production build
• npm run lint — ESLint