Nodejs port

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I don't know on what you were planning with this project, but I've ported it over to use nodejs. Main reason is I plan to include a web scraper to pull courses for users. The functionality currently supports bulkinserting from a csv file into an istudiez backup.

Changes

• added readme
• added nodejs folder that includes nodejs port
• some changes to .gitignore

[yacn]

Hey! Thanks for the pull request. Funnily enough, I was thinking about this earlier today because I read this post about a dev's project graveyard and thought it was an interesting way to look back at the abandoned projects one's worked on.

My original intent for the istd/istudiez projects on my page was to build a web interface for iStudiezPro. Back when I was using it, I didn't always want to bring my laptop to campus so I'd bring a Chromebook but this meant I had to do all updates via my phone, which was cumbersome/annoying. I realized the app let you back your data up so I downloaded one of the back ups and realized they were just zip files w/ an xml describing the backup and a SQLite database.

IIRC my idea was to make this into a library to perform the underlying operations from the REST API I was making to create the istd back-up that iStudiezPro. Again, IIRC (I don't use the program anymore since graduating), the main thing I accomplished was generating a valid back up file that was able to be loaded by the program.

Where I got stuck was trying to use the sync API that iStudiezPro had to push the generated backups to my devices but I wasn't able to figure out how the requests were made and eventually I graduated and stopped using the program.

I haven't used node so I wouldn't feel super comfortable reviewing the code outside of a very cursory level. I have been looking for a reason to learn it though.

Let me take some time this weekend to learn the basics of Node and give the code some review.

[lastlink]

My addition was to allow users to bulk import in new assignments using csv files. I got it working for the most part, the next step would be to check if a semester existed then created it if it didn't then create a course if it didn't exist then attach the new assignments to them. I've also finished a nodejs web selenium scraper (not in this pull request) for scraping assignments from a university website. I was trying to setup a template that users could customize for their own faculty websites to pull these in 10 minutes rather than spending 2 days inputing all their assignments. From what I could tell there are two field one was isnew another isupdating that the sync I believe checks and uploads your changes back tot he server.