This repository is for the demo paper:

Min Xie, Tianwen Chen and Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, "FindYourFavorite: An Interactive System for Finding the User's Favorite Tuple in the Database" the 2019 ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

Go to https://twchen.github.io/find-your-favorite/ for the demo.

Build Instructions

1. Set up Emscripten SDK.

   # in libraries/
   ./setup_emsdk.sh
   source emsdk/emsdk_env.sh

2. Compile GLPK for Emscripten

   # in libraries/
   ./make_lib.sh em++

3. Transcompile C++ code into JavaScript code. (The core algorithm is written in C/C++ by Min Xie).

   # in the project root folder
   make web

4. Install Yarn. Installation Guide of Yarn

5. Install dependencies

   # in react-app/
   yarn install

6. Run the demo

   # in react-app/
   yarn start

   The demo will be automatically opened in the browser. Follow this YouTube video to interact with the demo.

7. Build the demo for deployment

   # in react-app/
   yarn run build

   The built webpages are placed in the react-app/build/ folder.