ILUGD Summer Project Plan

What do we need?

A server to serve the tool as an API
A frontend to draw the templates
A format to store the templates with assets and the config

Deliverable 1

Tests are missing, so completing the tests
The positions are hardcoded to an extent
Probably also add CI to build and test the stuff
Have a dockerfile, it would help when we will the serving it as an API

Deliverable 2

Use net/http to serve the existing application
API for sending a config file and as a response get an image
A simple frontend for uploading the config and obtaining the result in the browser

Deliverable 3

More work on the frontend, creating a canvas
With the canvas we can interactively generate a config
This would use VueJS for the web app
It would generate .splat files
A custom API would accept the splat files and interface with the CLI to generate an image
The frontend would allow the user to download the image

Deliverable 4

Generate .splat files to contain both the config and the assets
Either as an archive of SVG and json but parsing SVG can sometimes be tricky with the possibilities it offers
Or another option is to generate a binary file using encoding/gob

Languages : Golang, JavaScript

External Libraries : Cairo for Golang, no idea about the JS part though

Why Golang?

This is one of the language I am most comfortable with, so gate-keeping for me(@hellozee) will be easy
A part of the project is already done in it, so less work
The whole toolchain is bundled into binary and lesser permutation of approaches
The standard library is most often more than enough

Why Cairo?

One of most popular drawing libaries out there
Device independent, can directly output to SVG/PDF, along with several image formats
Bindings exists for most of the languages
The only alternative looks like skia, which is probably limited to C++ and lacks community support like cairo