About Implementation and Hosting

The project is preferred to be implemented in Java-Spring. And as AWS EC2 provides a 1-year free trial, the project can be hosted in AWS.

But I have not learnt Spring before, and I will have a unit about Spring (ELEC5619: Object Oriented Application Frameworks) in the next semester. So I will start changing the implementation method to Spring next semester.

In this semester, I will implement the project in node.js - express and host it in Parse. I choose Parse because I am familiar with it, and Parse provides an easy way to cooperate between mobile and web platforms. It supports only node.js - express hosting. As a cloud service provider, Parse sets some limitation on the hosted node.js code (e.g. on file operations, Regex, resources). It is better not to host the final code in Parse.