About the SPA

«History of Genius Discovery» (shortly «History GD» or «GitHub for Scientists») is the scientific portal that was created to help scientists to keep own manuscripts (e.g., scientific articles, university manuals, and monographs).

The Test Access for Guests

Email: M.V.Lomonosov@history-gd.ru

Password: 123456

The Prerequisites of Creation

The software is based on following scientific article containing main software targets and the conception:

Mosolov R.V. Programma "Istorija genial'nogo otkrytija" // Elektronnyye biblioteki. 2020. V. 23. No 6. https://doi.org/10.26907/1562-5419-2020-23-6-1239-1278.

The Current GUI

At current time, GUI looks so as shown below. This GUI presents part of project's worked functionality on 04.05.2020 on the left.

The List of Planned SPA Functionality

1. creating manuscripts;
2. keeping manuscripts as reserve copies in Internet;
3. generating manuscripts to PDF to print them;
4. accumulating big data about manuscripts to search regularities of scientific discoveries;
5. scientific self-analysis;
6. et al.

The List of Planned Technological Stack

Frontend

#	Technology	Role
1	HTML	Adds layout
2	CSS	Adds stylization
3	JavaScript	Frontend PL
4	TypeScript	Adds strong types to variables
5	Next.js	Makes the SPA more familiarity with SEO
6	React.js	Main high-level library for JS
7	Material UI	Adds templates of frontend components
8	React Router	Adds URL paths between pages
9	Redux	Manages all SPA states centrally
10	Redux Thunk/Redux Saga	Deletes sides effects
11	GraphQL/Apollo	Sets strong types for data exchanging with DB
12	ESLint + Prettier	Check and fix code styles into modules
13	Grunt/Gulp	Automates manual operations
14	Jest	Tests modules code quality

The additional technological stack: Reselect.

Backend

#	Technology	Role
1	Node.js	Main server platform on JS syntax
1	Python	Server PL to integrate GUI with scientific libraries
2	Express.js	Main high-level library for Node.js
3	Google Firebase	Main DBMS and hosting for SPA
4	MongoDB	2nd DBMS for saving backups
5	PostgreSQL	3rd DBMS for saving backups
6	JWT	Creates tokens to authenticate an user session
7	Jest	Tests modules code quality

The Instructions

How to Run the SPA

Run following terminal commands from root directory:

1. Firstable, install all the project dependencies:
   1. npm run install-global
   2. npm run install-client
   3. npm run install-server
2. Type in 1st terminal window npm run client to render GUI
3. Type in 2nd window terminal npm run server to run the server

Finally, open a browser at: http://localhost:3000/

How to Check Syntax Quality into Modules (using Prettier)

npm run pretty

The Project Technical Task and Timekeeping in Russian

More information about project's technical details, planned functionality, and planned pages of the SPA:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KYWEs8QmNs79tw7Br3JS5j9R07W0w6GC

Also you can to learn statistic of work time that was oriented to this project:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CIHTwmnrYNzT6RYXHrQ99lInUuDib980M8JNQ23s6y4