FSJS-Capstone-Project

A MERN stack web application deployed on Heroku, with a React frontend with a Express backend.

This project uses REST API design and Express to create API routes, along with Mongoose and MongoDB for data modeling and persistence.
The app will provide a way for users to:

• see immunization data for Washington state schools by immunization type, exemption reason & more on a Google map
• interact with the map displaying schools in the database
• each map marker will display an infowindow w/ that schools immunization data

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Installation

You will need MongoDB installed on your local machine.

• Clone the repo:

  $ git clone git@github.com:apalm112/FSJS-Capstone.git

• cd into the project folder & install dependencies:

  $ npm i

• cd into the /client folder & install dependencies:

  $ npm i

Create a .Env File for API Keys

• You will need to create a .env file in the root directory of the project and a second .env file in the /client folder.

• To run this project you will need your own:

  1 Google Maps JavaScript API Key

  • In the /client/.env file add:

    REACT_APP_MAP_KEY=<Google Maps API Key>

  2 Socrata App Token

  • In the root directory .env file add:

    SOCRATA_API_KEY=<Socrata App Token>

  3 existing mLab Database account (they are no longer creating new ones)

  • Login to your mLab account & create a new MongoDB Deployment, under the free option.
  • Add a new database user & password to it.
  • Add the standard MongoDB URI from the deployment into the root directory .env file:

  MONGOLAB_URI=mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds<number>.mlab.com:<number>/<deployment name>

• To run the app, in the terminal enter:

  $ npm start