Pigeon-table: A quick prototyping tool using twitter bootstraps and AngularJS for data-driven web application development

Data-driven web applications are now taking over the role of traditional desktop applications as it is more convenient to the end user. However, developing a web application is considered challenging especially for junior web developers due to development processes, e.g. selection of development frameworks, learning the framework with lengthy documentations as well as experiment, or integrating the framework during the development. In this paper we proposed and developed a quick prototyping tool, “pigeon-table”, for data-driven web application development specifically focusing on data retrieval from MySQL database and render the data into an interactive table in a web application. The aims of this project are, 1) to optimize web developers' productivity in web application development as the tool is straightforward and simple, and 2) to enhance end user browsing experience with an interactive table in the data-driven web application.