Selfie

A full-stack web app to organise a university student's life: calendar, study timer, notes and an AI-powered assistant. Project for the Web Technologies course, BSc in Computer Science for Management, University of Bologna (2025).

Full setup guide (in Italian): README_TW-Project.pdf

Features

• Calendar with one-off and recurring events, import and export (iCal, Google Calendar)
• Pomodoro timer to organise study sessions
• Notes with Markdown and LaTeX formula support
• Time Machine to simulate different dates and test the app
• AI assistant built on the OpenAI API
• Sign-up and login with JWT authentication

Technologies

Part	Technologies
Front end	Angular 19, TypeScript, Angular Material, Bootstrap, FullCalendar
Back end	Node.js, Express, Mongoose, JWT
Database	MongoDB
Artificial intelligence	OpenAI API

How to run it

1. Install the dependencies from the main folder:

    npm install
   

2. Create the server/.env file with these variables:

    PORT=3000
    MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/selfie
    JWT_SECRET=a-long-random-string
    API_KEY=your-openai-key
   

3. Start the application:

    npm run start
   

4. Open http://localhost:4200 in your browser.

The repository also includes mongodump_root_folder.zip with sample data to import into MongoDB: the steps are in the PDF guide.

Team

Matteo Boscherini, Alessandro Campedelli, Nicolas Cola