Open Source Ecosystems

Notice

This project was originally a third-year project @ Imperial College London.

We have since stopped paying for the Heroku database, which means all search data will not be cached at the moment, resulting in slower responses.

Short description

This is the repository for the Ancesta web app (www.ancesta.uk) that allows to visualise complex family trees of famous people using data from WikiData.

Note that since the website is hosted on a Heroku dyno, it could take up to 30 seconds to open the website.

This is a third-year SED project at Imperial College London

Dependencies

The most notable backend dependencies include:

Heroku - hosting
KTOR - API requests routing
WikiData - data source

The most notable frontend dependencies include:

JS + ReactJS - framework
GoJS - diagram rendering

Licenses

Throughout the development of the project, the Evaluation License of the GoJS library was used. Should the project be extended / commercialised the Development and Distribution License would need to be purchased or an alternative open-source library would need to be found.

Running the project locally

To run the backend open the repository in IntelliJ IDEA, set the necessary environmental variables and run Application.kt.

To run the frontend navigate to genealogy-f and run npm install then npm run dev.

Contributors