Flex

Flex is an insurance project that can help you get cashbacks if you spend money and have been covered for a minimum of 90 days.

31st October 2022

Technologies

The technologies used this far:

• HTML
• JavaScript
• Node.js 16.13 or later
• Git
• GitHub
• Xata
• Cloudinary
• Knockout.js

Environment

• Linux OS
• Text Editor (Visual Studio Code)
• Linux Terminal

Project Set Up

• Create a Xata account (request for beta)
• On the Xata Web Interface, create a workspace
• Create a database
• Create a table
• Add data (optional)
• Install the Xata CLI globally (requires Node.js 16.13 or later)
• Create a Xata client to query your database
  • authenticate globally
  • authenticate based on your project (database). I chose the 'Install the Javascript SDK only, with no code generation'
  • create a fallback branch, like the development branch
  • create .gitignore and .env files
  • you can now access Xata commands
• Set up your Node.js runtime to read your API key
  • install dotenv
  • add code to access your API key from your .env file (add a variable with process.env)
• Query the database - use the Xata web interface to generate queries (I used Javascript and Fetch)

Contribution

If you would like to contribute to this project,feel free.

Deployment on Netlify

App on Netlify