Understanding Github projects

This article describes the projects under the PT Anywhere organization. These projects can be divided in the following categories:

• Installation scripts
• The core projects
• Related secondary projects

Installation scripts

• PA-installation: contains scripts which ease the installation and deployment of all its components.

Core projects

PT Anywhere (PA) front-end projects:

• PA-widget: Angular JS application to create PA widgets.

• PA-frontend: Java (Jersey) web application which serves PA-widget.

• (deprecated) PA-js: jQuery-based HTTP library for the API.

PA back-end projects:

• PA-api: An HTTP API for Packet Tracer made in Java (Jersey).

• pt-instances-management: An internal HTTP API for creating and managing different instances of Packet Tracer. It is Python application which uses Flask and Celery. Instances run in Docker containers.

• PTChecker hosts both a Python and a Java library to check if a Packet Tracer instance is running on a given host and port. This application is used by pt-instances-management to monitor Packet Tracer instances.

Secondary projects

Additionally, we have also made public the following related projects:

• performance-testing: a Python project created to measure the performance of PT Anywhere (specifically the Docker-based Packet Tracer container).

• usage-analysis: a web application which visualizes users interactions with the widgets in different ways.