Implementation of a Client-Server Application to Create and Update Text Files

Closed Human-Computer Interaction Master Project No Affiliation

The goal of this project is to implement a node server application that allows to create and update text files and upload images with the use of a web-form. These files have to be synchronized with a git repository. This project is a great opportunity to learn the current state-of-the-art JavaScript frameworks. No previous knowledge of JavaScript or Git is required.

Functional Software Requirements

• Authentication to allow access only for authorized users (e.g. by using GitLab access credentials)
• Web-form to define textual parameters
• Saving client-side inputs to a text file on the server
• Parsing existing text files to extract textual parameters
• Loading and modifying parsed textual parameters of text files from the server on the client
• Uploading images from the client to the server
• Server-side storage of text and image files in an existing git repository
• Server-side synchronization of this git repository with the existing GitLab server from the Computer Science Department
• Bundling all functionality into a docker image

The architecture of the project is illustrated below:

Illustration of the software architecture: a node server delivers a web-form to create and update text files and synchronizes changes with a remote git server.

Proposed Frameworks

The following JavaScript-only frameworks will be used, no previous knowledge is required:

• Node.js for server operations
• React for front-end operations

The application will be bundled in a Docker image.

Prerequisites

Interest in learning state-of-the-art tools for building basic web applications: Node.js, React, Git, and Docker. No previous knowledge is required.

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