Consensus

This project was created by Donny Bertucci and is the final project for CS290.

Demo

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Main Idea Behind Consensus

1. Have easy discoverability: more likes more promoted vice versa
2. Create Articles by components with TeX and JS in particular.
3. Find particular articles quickly via filtering.

Main Directories

/client houses the frontend client side code /server houses the backend server code /randomGenerate has some scripts to quickly generate different score distributions for testing purposes.

Technologies Used

1. /client

   a. React - Next.js

   b. d3.js - colors and selector functions

   c. KaTeX - fast LaTeX rendering

   d. SASS - scss for easier styling

   e. Material UI - used a few styled components

   f. axios - better syntax for get and post requests

2. /server

   a. Node + Express - server

   b. MySQL - Database choice

   c. Node MySQL - to interact with the db

3. /randomGenerate

   a. node random - needed for random distr. functions

   b. axios - better syntax for get and post requests