Shared Paper

Inspiration

The lack of a collaborative platform that meets the demands of workplace productivity, artistic creativity, and educational connectivity.

What it does

It creates a multi purpose canvas that allows students, artists, and professionals to pursue their endeavors.

How we built it

We created the backend using express, mongodb, socket.io; while the front end was done exclusively in react native.

Challenges we ran into

Implementing multiple user functionality into the app was quite difficult. Also getting the paper to render near simultaneously was a struggle.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A working product. Able to communicate through socket to simultaneously display a shared screen between devices. Encrypted passwords for user accounts.

What we learned

We learned a lot about the communication paradigm between front end technologies and back end technologies.

What's next for Shared Paper

We want to be able to sync points vs strokes eventually, this will allow the app to become much more smooth for the user.

Built With

• express.js
• mongodb
• node.js
• react-native
• socket.io