A graphical environment for Déjà Vu app development

Déjà Vu is a platform that allows people to build web applications from clichés, reusable implementations of software concepts. A cliché provides user interface elements and a database-backed web service in a single package, and the actions provided by clichés can be connected together to create complex functionality. On its own, the Déjà Vu platform requires one to learn HTML and a few additional language constructs to create an app. In order to make Déjà Vu accessible to non-programmers, I created a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor for Déjà Vu apps. This editor uses the drag-and-drop approach taken by many static website editors and extends it to Déjà Vu action composition. The actions, their inputs and outputs, and the connections between them are presented visually, and an app can be used in the editor as it is being built. This new editor allows unique, multi-user applications to be created without writing any code.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• McNamara, Barry A.,III.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Daniel Jackson.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123049

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123049