storymaker

storymaker

Scope:

For this project you will build a RESTful web application, which creates content-rich stories. A story is essentially a sequence of story blocks laid out on a timeline, which can contain imagery, text, video, or whatever can be displayed on a webpage. Think of it as a web-based collage.

A story block is just an HTML5 structure, which can be placed anywhere on a timeline.

A collage can contain several story blocks or another sub timeline.

Example:

Suppose the story is about your life. You have a collage of story blocks about things that happened to you very early in life.

Example:

	<!-- timelines contain stories -->
	<timeline>
		<!-- stories contain collages -->
		<story>
			<collage>
				<story>
					<!-- stands alone -->
					<h1>Accepted the Nobel Peace Prize</h1>
				</story>
			</collage>
			<collage>
				<!-- a collage can have a sub timeline/sub-stories -->
				<timeline>
					<story>
						<collage>
							<h1>Graduated College</h1>
							<img>
							<img>
							<img>
						</collage>
					</story>
					<story>
						<collage>
							<h1>Bought our first house</h1>
							<img>
							<img>
							<img>
						</collage>
					</story>
				</timeline>
			</collage>
		</story>
	</timeline>

Note: This structure is not set in stone.

Purpose:

Who doesn't like to share or read a good story? A story-MAKER can share their stories.

Requirements:

You are building a web application that supports:

• Login/User management (user roles: Admin/Creator and user that logins to view or share)
• Uploading images and text for story blocks
• Building story blocks from those parts and assigning them to a collage (a collage could be a div or a separate html page)
• Assigning collages to a timeline (ability to order and give time duration)
• Edit/Save capability of story blocks, collage, or the entire story.
• Ability to archive/unarchive all of the pieces
• Ability to delete/undelete all of the pieces
• All pieces can be flagged as private, public, or shareable to specific users
• Appropriate views for CRUD of all the pieces
• Ability to swap content in the builder (images, text, etc)
• A live preview would be nice (Allows storyteller to see in real-time what they are building/what others would see)
• Ability to download stories (export as XML or JSON more than likely)
• Animations/carousel capability would be cool, but not necessarily required

Technologies:

• front-end (it would be fun to use): HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/AngularJS
• back-end (it would be fun to use): Golang, NodeJS, etc
• exports to: XML or JSON