Enviornmental Tracker - Backend

https://real-nueva-frontend.herokuapp.com/

This is the backend of the School Utility Tracker, made in NodeJs and ExpressJS with a MongoDB database connection.

The project currently has a built in frontend, for testing purposes, but a seperate ReactJS frontend has been completed seperately and can be linked for future developemnt of the project.

Current Functionality (Backend)

• ExpressJS backend with the ability to run the server.

• Link to MongoDB database that has been set up to allow for storage of utility data objects

• Functions for connecting user input with the backend and pushing it to the database

Functionality of frontend and data visualization

• ReactJS frontend with live data API integration

• Python data visualization system that generates graphs and images from stored objects

Future Features and Goals

• Fully connect the frontend, backend, and data analysis

• Remove the redundant frontend from the Node/Express server

• Create testing functions to ensure data submission and analysis work without the risk of major errors

• Work on improving the data submission functionality to allow for utility providers to easily or even automatically provide data

Major Issues

• Integrating the three seperate aspects of the project together

• Specific for our client:

  • No person we have contacted was able to connect us with any source of power, water, and waste data for the school. Until we have a reliable source of utility data the project itself will not be able to display these.

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/NavSous/Software-Studio-Project

Install dependencies

  npm install mongodb

Start the server

  node index.js