Determine Product Architecture

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• ZICTA Connecting schools(Internet available)
• We will have client server applications hosted locally
• Client servers will have a way to connect to online production server which will provide latest updates for the App
• Development environment will push the latest working version of the App to the production server
• We can also create a service to backup client server data/configurations to an online backup service such as amazon
• The main objective of this architecture is to allow schools/institutions to use the system disconnectedly, while we seamlessly continue to improve it

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So we will need to make our App accessible via APIs. That is the server-side code should be designed as REST API which makes it much easier to scale!

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We will use MongoDB, Mongoose Object Data Mapping (ODM) with Express.js, Angular.js and Node.js. These technologies use a uniform language - JavaScript - providing performance gains in the software and productivity gains for developers.