A web application to process XRF images

XRF-App is a web application for the analysis of XRF images of cultural heritage works.

XRF stands for X-Ray Fluorescence and is a technique that uses X rays to peek at the chemical components used in the manifucturing of the work being scanned.

This application allows to load an image from a remote digital library and to process it directly in the web browser.

For developers

The application is written in typescript.

The dependencies are specified in package.json and can simply be installed running npm install from the project root directory. The dependencies are installed locally in the node_modules subdirectory.

Reading list

• Typescript - Javascript that scales

• Creating a TypeScript library with a minimal setup

• Browserify

  • Handbook
  • Introduction

• Webpack, an alternative to Browserify

• Jest - Deligthful JavaScript Testing and ts-jest

• VS Code - Editing TypeScript