This is the code behind: https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/auskunftsbegehren
Please open issues here for anything you find not working correctly with the Application. If you miss any organisation or company in the data, feel free to open Pull Requests at the Data Repository.
Note that you will need to have Node.js installed.
Works with:
- Node v24
Download the latest data files:
wget -O public/data_de.json https://github.com/DigitaleGesellschaft/Datenauskunftsbegehren-Data/releases/latest/download/data_de.json
wget -O public/data_fr.json https://github.com/DigitaleGesellschaft/Datenauskunftsbegehren-Data/releases/latest/download/data_fr.json...then install the dependencies and playwright browsers...
npm install
npx playwright install...then start the webpage
npm run devNavigate to localhost:5173. You should see the App runnning.
If you're using Visual Studio Code we recommend installing the official extension Svelte for VS Code.
Translation files are located in the locales folder:
| File | Purpose | How to update |
|---|---|---|
de-CH.json |
UI strings (German) | npm run i18n |
fr-CH.json |
UI strings (French) | npm run i18n |
en.json |
UI strings (English) | npm run i18n |
it-CH.json |
UI strings (Italian) | npm run i18n |
de-CH.letter.json |
Letter text (German) | Edit manually |
fr-CH.letter.json |
Letter text (French) | Edit manually |
The letter files (*.letter.json) are maintained manually — they contain the full legal text of the letters and use a separate locale namespace (de-letter, fr-letter).
If translation strings are added inside the source code, re-run the generation of the locale files:
npm run i18nThis only adds missing keys (with empty values) — existing translations are preserved.
Note: the scripts only scan UI components (not src/letter/). New translation keys in letter components must be added manually to the letter JSON files. If new source subdirectories are added, update the UI_GLOBS list in tooling/i18n.sh.
Then continue to translate the locale files and commit all changed files to the repo.
Poedit is an open-source program but lacks the possibility to display the languages side-by-side. BabelEdit needs a licence and is not free, even though it supports the file format. For now, the easiest is:
- Provide german defaults in source code
- Replace default german text in other language versions
The default language is German (de). It can be changed via the VITE_DEFAULT_LANG environment variable — useful when hosting the app on a website in a different language.
Valid values: de, fr, en, it
Note: The correspondence language (used for the generated letter) only supports
deandfr. Any other value falls back tode.
Either pass it directly at build time:
VITE_DEFAULT_LANG=fr npm run buildOr add it to a .env file in the project root:
VITE_DEFAULT_LANG=fr
To create an optimised version of the app:
npm run previewNavigate to localhost:8080. You should see the App runnning.
Go to https://github.com/DigitaleGesellschaft/Datenauskunftsbegehren/actions and download the Artifact named Public from the latest build. Put all the content into a folder server by a webserver.
Generate production build:
npm run buildCheck the produced output before deployment:
docker run --rm -v ./dist:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -p 8080:80 nginxCopy everything in /dist into a folder served by a Webserver.
Execute various E2E Tests using playwright (against localhost):
npm run test
Run a single test:
npm run test -- --grep "Datenauskunftsbegehren für Swisscom generieren"
Execute various E2E Tests using playwright against the deployed version
BASE_URL=https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/auskunftsbegehren npm run test