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collaboard is collborative tool allowing researchers to collaborate using LaTeX and a shared whiteboard
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if no room exists, it is created
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messages are previewed as you type. drawing on the right appear in realtime in the browsers of other participants
Inspiration
Ben and I are both PhD students in science subjects and have experienced phases when our supervisors have been traveling for a while. However, when skyping with them it is often difficult to convey mathematical ideas, as most chat are not able to properly typeset equations or able to easily share sketches.
What it does
It's basically a chat room with extra support for latex and a whiteboard. The idea is that you're skyping with your supervisor, open the chat room on your laptop and tablet and use the laptop to write equations and the tablet to draw sketches. Everything appears in realtime at the other end.
How we built it
We use node.js with express.js and socket.io for the backend, the front end is written in angular2 with typescript.
Challenges we ran into
A few... not really knowing angular or node at all was the main one.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Doing our first hackathon and actually submitting something!
What we learned
Never mess with angular routers....
What's next for collaboard
Better layout on small phone screens, export to latex/pdf documents.
Built With
- angular2
- azure
- express.js
- mathjax
- node.js
- socket.io
- typescript
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