🍊 habitat

A simple browser app for tracking habits! ✨

Built with:

• Next.js
• GraphQL using Apollo Server
• Prisma ORM for Postgres
• Chart.js
• next-iron-session for authorization

how to use

Habitat is live at https://habi.vercel.app/! Registration is currently closed as I don't want to inadvertently become responsible for a bunch of strangers' habit data, but you can use the username demo and password habitat to log in with a special account I set up for people interested in demoing the app.

If you like Habitat and you actually want to use it, feel free to contact me.

overview

general functionality

• Authenticate users using next-iron-session, which creates a signed and encrypted cookie to store session data

• Create/read/update/delete habit data

  • Display habit data for a given calendar period (month and year) on either a timeline, calendar, or line graph
  • Add, edit, or delete habit data for a given day

• Create/read/update/delete habits

  • Display habits either as a list or on a grid
  • Configure habit display information: name, label, icon, and color
  • Configure habit type: complex/scalar ("I practiced music for this many hours today") vs. simple ("I practiced music today"/"I didn't practice music today"), active vs. inactive/retired (retired habits will no longer show up when creating/editing records, but existing data for those habits will be preserved)

• Allow users logged on to the demo account to generate a set of sample habits and at least a month's worth of randomized habit data to play around with. I have this set up so that any data (sample or otherwise) created by a demo user is bound to a unique string or demoTokenId stored in that user's browser session, so that multiple users can be logged on to the same demo account simultaneously without interfering with anyone else's experience of the app.

• Allow users to set preferences for how the app should behave

  • Set a default view type for habit data (timeline, calendar, or line graph) and for habits (list or grid)
  • Toggle view options for the clock in the top right corner of the app: display or hide clock, 12- or 24-hour clock, show or hide clock seconds

• Edit account details (name, email address, and password)

api breakdown

• Apollo Server for GraphQL (in /pages/api/server)

  • index.js: Creates an instance of ApolloServer
  • schemas/index.js: Defines my GraphQL schema
  • resolvers/index.js: Defines my resolvers, which tell Apollo Server how to fetch data for each type defined in the schema

• Prisma ORM for Postgres

  • /prisma/schema.prisma: Prisma schema file, the main configuration file for my Prisma setup
  • /lib/prisma.js: Creates an instance of PrismaClient, which is used by my resolvers to send database queries

• All non-auth-related API routes are restricted to one file, /pages/api/index.js, whose exports are objects that correspond to resource types - User, Habit, and Entry. Each of these objects comes with a set of CRUD functions that use the handleQuery fetch wrapper (see /pages/api/handleRequest.js) to call the GraphQL server with a pre-defined mutation/query string and optional query variables.

• Auth-related API logic is located inside the /pages/api/auth directory:

  • index.js: Checks if there is user data stored in session. The data returned from this function, fetched at request time via getServerSideProps, is used on all protected pages to redirect to the login page if no valid session is found.
  • getSession.js: Gets the session data. The only time this is used is when retrieving the demoTokenId unique to each demo account session (this is explained in more detail above, under general functionality).
  • login.js: Uses next-iron-session to create a signed and encrypted cookie to store session data
  • logout.js: Destroys the session

notes to self

• dash panel idea - 'help'/tutorial section for dashboard and habit pages, togglable in settings
• character limit on habit names
• figure out switching from simple -> complex habits - should maybe prompt the user for an amount to put in for entries that record that habit as completed?