frazie / HospitalLocator-KE

this is a fullstack application that allows the user to get information of any health facility within the area they want. This is currentl developed to work in Kenya

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Introduction

Finding a hospital during emergecnies can be very hectic especially when in a fairly new area, even in your own country. The need for this application came about when I was was in a similar situation and Google wasn't the best way but eventually I got to a healthy facility but this took a while.

After this, I therefore, choose to develop a way by which one could find the nearest medical or health facility within one's location. This created Hospital Locator.

How Hospital Locator Works

To get the available hospital facilities within one's area. you simply have to search your location and the results will be a list of all medical facilities within the region in Kenya.

Check Out the Live Application!

The app does not require any form of login making it much more accessible to anyone at anytime.

Currently, I am testing the application by hosting it on Cyclic since Heroku announces their plans to drop their free hosting.

visit the live site hosted on Cyclic

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How It's Made:

Tech used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, Code For Africa

Optimizations

I have added a lot of features to this over time, especially with the code formatting. Initially, I had all back-end operations within a single file but I changed this after getting a good command of the MVC structure!!!

Getting the right information for the project was quite the challenge but after extensive brainstorming and research, I found Code For Africa which has a range of APIs built with various African facts and information.

In my case, I settled for their health tools API which allowed me to fetch the data and further break it down to my needed structural objects.

Lessons Learned:

Every project is a lesson learned in CSS! Still need work to work on this though

I also became more comfortable with navigating MVC architecture.

Future Improvements:

Currently this project is still with bugs.

I plan to restructure the API accessibility because it breaks occassion while works fully when run locally.

I need to improve on the UI and make it more presentable.

Plan to make the page more responsive for a range of devices.

I will need to get more APIs to include other countries since the concept can actually be used in many countries beyond Kenya.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to the project by creating a new branch and forwarding the PR on any element of the project, I will gladly include any positive and helpful feature for the project.

Install all the dependencies or node packages used for development via Terminal

npm install

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Things to add

• Create a .env file, in your root folder, and add the following as a key: value pair
  • PORT = 2121 (can be any port example: 3000)