Digital Display Garden

Software Design S2017, Iteration 4, Team dorfner-v2

This repository is a fork from Iteration 3 , Team dorfner.

Introduction 🌷

This project's main goal is to develop a web application that provides visitors the ability to leave feedback for a local horticulture garden, the West Central Research Outreach Center (WCROC). The application includes an administration side that allows certain garden employees to manage the website, and a visitor side that allows visitors to view all the beds in the garden, view the plants in those beds, and leave feedback about these plants. It is designed in a way that would make it fairly easy to be used by other interested gardens.

Key features

Administration

• Upload a spreadsheet of plants and populate a database
• Delete an existing spreadsheet from the database
• Export collected visitor feedback to a spreadsheet
  • Comments
  • Counts
    • Visits
    • Likes/Dislikes
    • Comments
  • Visit Timestamps
    • Hourly
    • Daily
• Download QR codes for each bed, and the homepage
• Upload photos to specific plant pages

Visitor experience

• Homepage
  • Searchbar
  • Bed-list dropdown
  • Brief overview of the garden
  • Instructions on how to use the application
• Bed Pages
  • List of plants in the current bed
• Plant Pages
  • Name of plant
  • Uploaded picture
  • Ability to leave feedback on the plant
    • Like/Dislike
    • Leave a comment
  • Total number of interactions on this plant (Ratings + Comments)
• Footer
  • Name and address of the garden
  • Links to website and social media

Running your project

See Documentation/Running.md.

Documentation

See the Administration Guide for a brief overview of how to use the site after you have it up and running.

Languages used

• Typescript
• Javascript
• Java

Libraries used

Client-Side

• Angular 2
• Jasmine and Karma
• Gradle

Server-Side

• Spark is used for the server operations
• JUnit is used for testing
• Apache POI is used for importing and exporting data in .xlsx format
• zxing is used for generating QR codes (supports reading them if we want)
• joda is used for making an unique LiveUploadID
• Nimbus is used for OAuth
• scribejava is used for OAuth
• MongoDB is used as our Database
• Gradle

Resources

• Bootstrap Components
• Mongo's Java Drivers (Mongo JDBC)
• What is Angular 2... why TypeScript?
• What is webpack...?
• Testing Angular 2 with Karma/Jasmine

This project was developed as a part of a Software Design class at the University of Minnesota, Morris.