codecollab - is a Collaborative Text Workspace with Chat Support.

Built with javalin.io - which is a lightweight Java & Kotlin framework which provides a simple abstracted implementation of WebSockets used for this webapp.

screenshot

run locally

• git clone https://github.com/arniesaha/codecollab.git
• cd codecollab
• mvn install
• java -jar target/codecollab-jar-with-dependencies.jar

run locally with docker

• git clone https://github.com/arniesaha/codecollab.git
• cd codecollab
• docker build -t codecallab .
• docker run -it --rm --name codecollab -p 7070:7070 codecollab
• browse to http://localhost:7070

webapp architecture via cloudformation

This is deployed under a ECS cluster of type Networking + EC2 (Under above VPC) with 1 (t2.micro) containers and 1 task under service with AutoScale policy of CPU Utilisation higher than 80% to scale upto 4 tasks.

goals of the project:

• To showcase full-stack skills of building a web application using a Java framework
• Front-end implementation via html, css & javascript
• Deployment strategy via docker and aws

To-dos

• Implementing a code editor like codemirror for the collaborative section for use-cases like collaborative online interview calls.
• Implement authentication and login/logout states.
• Implement persistance either via saving session on drive or traditional DBs like MongoDB or Redis