chermehdi / petra

E-learning platform, SMART class Application

Installation Instructions

Server Requirements

• latest version of Node.js and NPM
• Recent version of MongoDB
• Java 8 installed for the application launcher

Client Requirements

• Recent version of Chrome 56.0 or higher
• Screen Sharing Plugin installed

Development Requirements

• Understanding of Javascript (ECMAScript 6)
• basic understanding of HTML5 and CSS3
• Understanding of major node.js API and express packages
  • path
  • fs
  • url, unzipper, multer
• Understanding of Websockets and socket.io library
• Understanding of MongoDb query language, and Mongoose ORM

Deployment instructions

• You need a class enabled with a local network
• The professor's computer acts as the server as the application is using the client-server architecture
• The application launcher is installed in the professor's computer, Mongodb and NodeJs are supposed to be installed (UNIX based operating system is preferred)
• install the Screen Sharing google chrome plugin in all the class's computers for the real time video sharing to work .
• if it's the first time you deploy the app on a computer, or just cloned from the Github repo, please run an npm install to make sure all the app dependencies are satisfied .
• after starting the server the app should work properly