MATLAB Web-App Project

This project demonstrates how to build a modern web application that exposes a library of MATLAB functions to users via a React frontend and a Python backend. The intent is to show how MATLAB's computational power can be integrated into a user-friendly, interactive web interface, making advanced calculations and charting accessible from any browser.

Technologies Used

• MATLAB: Provides the core computational functions and algorithms.
• Python: Acts as the bridge between MATLAB and the web, using the MATLAB Engine API for Python.
• FastAPI: A modern, fast (async) Python web framework for building APIs.
• React: A popular JavaScript library for building responsive, interactive user interfaces.
• Chart.js (via CDN): Lightweight charting library for displaying results visually in the browser.

The application includes both simple and complex calculators, demonstrating parameter passing, result handling, and dynamic chart rendering.

Screenshots

Simple Calculator View

Charting/Complex Calculator View

setting up application

setting up backend

set up python venv

python -m venv venv

activate python venv

venv\Scripts\activate # Windows

install python server tools

pip install fastapi uvicorn

install setuptools for matlab backend

python -m pip install setuptools

enable matlab backend engine

cd D:\matlab\extern\engines\python # replace with matlab install directory python setup.py install

setting up frontend

install and setup react frontend

npx create-react-app frontend cd frontend npm install axios npm install react-router-dom

running application

running backend

venv\Scripts\activate cd backend uvicorn app:app --reload --port 8000

running frontend

cd frontend npm start