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Project Description: A much needed upgrade for students to plan their timetable properly
Features
- All information automatically kept up to date every semester
- View all module information, timings
- One click to generate all possible combinations of indexes to take, with optional constraints such as blacklisted/whitelisted days/time periods, locking specific indexes, etc.
- Intuitive timetable interface to manually select each mod index
- Local save without logging in. Data is saved in browser
- Optional cloud save (cross-device sync) and timetable loadouts
Tools Used
Frontend Stack
- Next.js for Static Site Generation (SSG), Server Side Rendering (SSR), Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), caching etc.
- Static pages such as “About” or “Feedback” statically generated at build time so that HTML is directly served when requested
- Mod pages are statically generated at build time, but also periodically updated using ISR
- Zustand for global state management
- Tailwind/Shadcn components used for styling
Auth Stack
- Auth.js
- Neon with Prisma DB Connector
Backend (Data Collection)
- Cheerio for HTML parsing and extracting information
- Vercel Functions to run CRON job periodically to keep information up to date
- S3 compatible storage (Cloudflare R2) for storing data