COVID-19_tracker_analysis

Description:

Build a website doing track and analysis of coronavirus in worldwide and America, including frontend and backend development.

Functions:

• Obtain data from widely-used third-party APIs and update the virus data automatically from server API every hour
• Add a safety advice module to tell people what to do during this pandemic infection.
• Write a footer and about us page to let people who browse this website have a better understanding about our project.
• Build a news page using Microsoft Bing News API to let the website show the top news about coronavirus in the US
• Write an Email subscriber to let people who want to keep updated with our website can subscribe to our newsletter, using nodemailer.
• Host this project on Heroku

Tools in use:

• Frontend framework: Angular and Bootstrap4
• Backend framework: Node.js
• Frontend icon: Google Map API and Chart.js
• Host Platform: Heroku

Structure:

Demo:

Getting started

To get the Node server running locally:

• Clone this repo
• Add the information of your gmail account for subscribe module at /backend/index.js
• Install all required dependencies

$ npm install

• Go to /backend and run

$ node index.js

To get the frontend running locally:

Go to /frontend, then run

• Clone the repository.
• Run npm install in folder.
• Make sure you have npm and angular-cli installed.
• After installation is done, run ng serve and open website at https://localhost:4200

Group members:

Haoyu Guo haoyuguo@usc.edu

Tianyi Xu xutianyi@usc.edu

License:

MIT

YouTube link：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiZ4z87VUSY&t=64s