Texpile

The Project

A web-based editor powered by modern JavaScript, that provides an easy-to-use interface to write papers like mathematical documents, independent from LaTeX, but offers a transpiler that transpiles its content to LaTeX documents.

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Team Comments

Writing documents containing mathematics requires dealing with the LaTeX compiler. This is not ideal; it is slow and difficult for nonprofessionals and sometimes causes compile errors. This is relatively common, especially among secondary school facilities. Texpile aims to make LaTeX accessible.

This project runs on Google Cloud, and configuring Google servers is hard, especially for beginners. For instance, I ran into CORS errors many times. Eventually, I could fix all my errors by testing permission(IAM) and configuring my server via cloud console and logs.

I started this project without formally designing a User Interface. While the current interface works fine, it is far from what I had imagined. I have already designed a modern UI on Figma, and I plan to implement it in my application.