sduale01 / vLIFE

Integrated IoT + mobile application that will give you real time diagnostics of your vehicle.

vLIFE

vLIFE is a mobile application that works in conjuction with an IoT device. It will give you real time diagnostics of your vehicle. vLIFE will send you a notification if a sensor flashes in your vehicle's dashboard, it will tell you what that sensor is and what it does. It will also give you the option to make an appointment with your local auto repair shop. vLIFE will also monitor your vehicle’s fluid levels - e.g: if you are running out of gas it will direct you to a gas station nearby using google maps.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Built With

JavaScript React Redux Saga Express Node.js Node-Cron PostgreSQL HTML/CSS

Create database and table

Create a new database called vLIFE and create a person table:

CREATE TABLE "person" (
    "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    "username" VARCHAR (80) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
    "password" VARCHAR (1000) NOT NULL
);

If you would like to name your database something else, you will need to change prime_app to the name of your new database name in server/modules/pool.js

Development Setup Instructions

• Run npm install
• Create a .env file at the root of the project and paste this line into the file:

  SERVER_SESSION_SECRET=superDuperSecret
  

  While you're in your new .env file, take the time to replace superDuperSecret with some long random string like 25POUbVtx6RKVNWszd9ERB9Bb6 to keep your application secure. Here's a site that can help you: https://passwordsgenerator.net/. If you don't do this step, create a secret with less than eight characters, or leave it as superDuperSecret, you will get a warning.
• Start postgres if not running already by using brew services start postgresql
• Run npm run server
• Run npm run client
• Navigate to localhost:3000

Lay of the Land

• src/ contains the React application
• public/ contains static assets for the client-side
• build/ after you build the project, contains the transpiled code from src/ and public/ that will be viewed on the production site
• server/ contains the Express App

Before you get started, make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:

• Node.js
• PostrgeSQL
• Nodemon

Debugging

To debug, you will need to run the client-side separately from the server. Start the client by running the command npm run client. Start the debugging server by selecting the Debug button.

Then make sure Launch Program is selected from the dropdown, then click the green play arrow.

Authors

Sharmarke Duale