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[QUESTION] Timetable constrain solver
Cheers Community,
I would like to build a lesson planner and am looking for a constrain solver in NodeJS. Currently I have found OptaPlanner as a Java variant and your kiwi.js npm package.
Does anyone have experience with constrain solvers in NodeJs environment (kiwi.js) and maybe with timetables?
Current "hard" constrains are:
- classes
- rooms
- subjects
- Teachers
- timeslots
The idea behind the constraint solver should be an automatic assignment of subjects/teachers/classes within given timeslots.
Thanks for your help!
I'm working on something like this but hitting some limitations. Let me know if you want to se where I'm at. I could use a pair to help me solve the last piece.
I'm sorry I missed this and am replying so late. It is an interesting use case. I don't have much experience with the problem set, as I forked this as part of a fork of autolayout.js to convert to TypeScript in order to compile to WebAssembly, ultimately for making UI layouts.
As for Node.js, this can definitely be used there. The output (dist/ folder) is just JavaScript with no browser- or node-specific dependencies. You can simply import it and use it.
So I think you can't use Lume/Kiwi to do scheduling bc it's basically a linear optimizer, and schedules are multi-dimension. My code completely fails when I attempt to make a picker. I wound up using a custom solution.