In this project, you will work with up to 2 other students (max group size of 3) to tie together everything you have learned up to now in the semester.
The purpose of this project is to create a fully functioning "real-time application" within a group of up to 3 students.
First, you must select a topic for your project to be on. Example topics could be (you cannot use any of these for your project):
- Local Dogs for Adoption
- Movie Reviews
- UMD Clubs and Activities
- Rock Climbing Gyms
This project is largely open ended. The only requirement is to satisfy all parts of the Specifications section below, which are broad and flexible. Outside of that, you are free to be creative and make something you are proud of.
You fill submit both the application source as well as a documentation.md file that documents how you implemented each part of the project.
Grading will be done using the documentation.md file to test your application.
Each specificiation has two types of requirements:
- (REQ): These are requirements must be followed. Failue to do so can result in up to 50% point deductions for the entire project.
- (X pt): These specifications are worth X points.
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Fulfillment of Midterm Project Requirements
- (REQ) (50 pt) Data should be stored using MongoDB, instead of similar to how the Pokemon API and the blog engine was set up
- Have at least 3 different schemas
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Live Updates
Users will need to be able to add data to your local storage, and have live updates and a notification system.
- (10 pt) Incorporate sockets.
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View Data
Users should be able to view all data in two ways:
- (REQ) The HTML pages should be generated using Handlebars
- (10 pt) Handlebars.js should be used to generate at least 5 pages, including a form submission page for your respective entity
- (5 pt) Have a (6th) description about page, which includes the names of the group members and description of the application
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API
Use express.js to have at least 10 different endpoints
- (10 pt) At least 2 post endpoints
- (10 pt) At least 2 delete endpoints
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Modules
Create at least 2 modules (to separate functionality from backend API functionality)
- (15 pt) Create at least 2 modules
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NPM Packages
- (15 pt) Use 2 new npm packages that we have not used before
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User Interface
- (10 pt) Make it look nice
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Deployment
- (5 pt) Deploy to the web (either Heroku or Now)
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README
- (5 pt) Create a README with all the specifications
We will be Heroku Heroku to submit one link per project.
At the top of your project, include the Heroku link (ex: https://myapp.herokuapp.com) at the top of your documentation.md file, like so:
Submit just the documentation.md file to the submit server.