Group Members:
This project is a note sharing application. Users sign up for the service and can author notes that they can then share with other users via their email.
This application requires NodeJS. In order to run this application and connect with the database, you will require access credentials not available in this repo. Please contact Michael for the credentials if you need them
npm install- Ensure that the Redis server is running.
npm start
This project implements the following technologies covered in CS-554:
| Technology | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|
| React | Implementing user interface and component-based architecture | webapp/src |
| Redis | Caching data, pub/sub operations on the backend | webapp/backend/worker webapp/backend/server.js |
| Workers | Moving heavy operations off of the backend server | webapp/backend/worker/worker.js |
| Express | Leveraging a REST API to make database & cache requests | webapp/backend/server.js |
| Webpack | Serving the frontend | webapp/webpack.config.js |
The project implements the following technologies not covered in CS-554:
| Technology | Origin | Purpose | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| DynamoDB | AWS | A NoSQL database solution in lieu of MongoDB | webapp/backend/ops/dynamo.js |
| Elasticsearch | Elastic with AWS endpoint | A data indexing solution to retrieve notes instead of frequent DB querying | webapp/backend/ops/elasticsearch.js webapp/backend/ops/es.js |
| Lambda | AWS | Trigger function to update Elasticsearch index when DynamoDB has create, update, delete functions executed | AWS servers |