A LaTex Editor for the web

This repository introduces a LaTex editor built using React JS, Deno, and MongoDB.

Installation

• To run the project, you just need to install docker and docker-compose.

Dependencies (Linux)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin

Steps

• Build the backend docker image

cd ./backend && docker build -t encrylatexdeno .

• Build the frontend docker image

cd ../frontend && docker build -t coffeetex .

• The docker-compose.yaml file will run three docker containers simultaneously i.e. the backend, the frontend, and the database.

From the root of the project run the following command:

docker-compose up

To know the IP address of the docker container, run the following commands:

docker ps

That will result in the following output:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE            COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                                           NAMES
d3f69caf91b3   encrylatexdeno   "/tini -- docker-ent…"   56 seconds ago   Up 56 seconds   0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, :::8000->8000/tcp       thecoffeetexeditor_server_1
644fc6629dd1   coffeetex        "docker-entrypoint.s…"   56 seconds ago   Up 8 seconds    0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp, :::3000->3000/tcp       thecoffeetexeditor_client_1
f5b1c015f20b   mongo            "docker-entrypoint.s…"   56 seconds ago   Up 56 seconds   0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp, :::27017->27017/tcp   thecoffeetexeditor_mongo_1

• Copy the container id of the "coffeetex" image and run:

docker inspect YOUR_CONTAINERID | grep "IPAddress"

• The docker container have an IP address in the range of 172.19.0.0/16.

• Navigate to docker_ip_address:3000 and the application will start

The image below shows the "browse" screen of the web application

The second image is the LaTex editor

The features implemented in the latex web editor are:

1. Compiling LaTex code to PDF
2. Compiling LaTex code to MS word format
3. Generating text files from PDF documents.
4. A customized PDF viewer

This code is under MIT License.