whmcquaid / surf-app

Application to view current surf reports for Northern California

surf-app

Application to view current surf reports for Bay Area California

Utilizing puppeteer for web scraping and node-cron for scheduling tasks

• Use Node, node-cron, puppeteer, express, and mongoose to schedule, scrape, store data, and send data to frontend.
• Display on simple Vue frontend.

Setup instructions:

• if you do not already have a mongodb account, make a MongoDB account using your browser to navigate to mongodb.com and clicking "Start Free" and follow the instructions there
• Clone this repo to your local machine
• in the terminal navigate to the directory using cd <surf-app>
• create a .env file and make two variables MONGO_USER and MONGO_PSWD and assign your username and password to the variables
• start the server by navigating into the server directory cd server then npm start
• in a separate terminal start the frontend by navigating into the client directory cd client and then npm start