drdroy1/c4me

CSE-416 College For Me

Introduction

This repo is for the development of the College For Me project that provides an online service for bother colleges and students for their admission process and track their college applications.

Team Member:

Dhruba Roy

Front-end

• HTML front end to send requests to the server
• CSS and Bootstrap for styling

Back-end

• Current programming language in the backend is Node.js specifically the Express framework.
• Using modules from node to scrape data from web and import data
• Load balancing with Nginx to achieve partial concurrency
• MongoDB database for caching user data

Set Up Instructions

Due to file limits by Github, some node modules are not provided; these dependencies have to be installed by the user.

• (1) Express Framework
  • npm install express
  • npm install express-session
• (2) Mongo-DB
  • npm install mongo
  • npm install mongoose
• (3) File Reader
  • npm install fs
  • npm install path
• (3) URL Parser
  • npm install url