Updated README and requirements.txt
diff --git a/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/README.md b/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/README.md
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--- a/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/README.md
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# React + Flask Application
+# Airavata Jupyter Platform Dashboard
 
-This is an application which contains a connected flask backend to a react frontend
+This is an application which contains a connected flask backend to a react frontend. The react frontend contains tables and forms to run the keep track of the created, saved and running notebook entries.
 
 ## Backend
 Step1: Enter the backend directory and create and activate your environment:
@@ -21,17 +21,17 @@
 Step2: Then install the requirements using:
 `pip install -r requirements.txt`
 
+Step3: Run the backend application using flask run.
+Open [http://localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000) to view it in the browser.
+
+Step4:
 ## Available Scripts
 
 Return to the base directory and run: `npm install` before running the scripts below.
 
-Then, run `npm run start-backend` to start the flask backend server.
 
-Open [http://localhost:5000](http://localhost:5000) to view it in the browser.
 
 Next, run `npm start` to start the frontend section of the application.
 
 Open [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000) to view it in the browser.
-
-## Testing the application
-Click on the button that appears on the page to make the request to the API endpoint in the backend. 
+ 
diff --git a/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/backend/requirements.txt b/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/backend/requirements.txt
index 8b13789..01897e1 100644
--- a/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/gsoc2022/jupyter-platform-dashboard/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-
+Flask
+Flask-SQLAlchemy
+SQLAlchemy
+flask-cors
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