AutoDex

Introduction

AutoDex is a simple vehicle search application that allows you to save favorite cars to your account. It uses the NHTSA API to pull vehicle information and pulls images from the Unsplash API at intervals of 50 per hour due to limits on the free API.

Unsplash API pull

async function unsplashImages() {
  db.car.findAll({
    where: {
      updated_img: false
    }
  })
  .then(async carimg => {
    console.log(carimg[0].dataValues);
    for (let i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
      let index = carimg[i].dataValues;
      let getCarImage = await axios.get(`${uSplashBaseURL}search/photos?orientation=landscape&page=1&per_page=1&query=${index.make.replaceAll(' ', '+')}+${index.model.replaceAll(' ', '+')}&${uSplashEnd}`)
      .catch(err => {console.log(err)})
      let imgURL = getCarImage.data.results[0].urls.full;
      let addImagesToDatabase = db.car.update({
        updated_img: true,
        image: `${imgURL}`
      },
      {
        where: {
          make: index.make,
          model: index.model
        }
      })
    }
    console.log('IMAGES ADDED:', addImagesToDatabase)
  })
  .catch(err => {console.log(err)})
  .finally(() => {console.log('ADDING IMAGES COMPLETED')});
}

NHTSA API pull

async function getCarData() {
  let carsArray = [];
  let pullCarMakesData = await axios.get(`${baseURL}${allMakes}${endOfURL}`)
  .catch(err => {console.log('INITIAL CAR API PULL ERROR:', err)})
  let pulledCarMakesData = pullCarMakesData.data.Results;
  pulledCarMakesData.forEach(async (carMake) => {
    let authenticate = true;
    if(
        carMake.Country === 'UNITED STATES (USA)' 
        && carMake.Mfr_CommonName !== null 
        && carMake.Mfr_CommonName !== 'Daimler Trucks ' 
        && carMake.Mfr_CommonName !== 'Volvo (Truck / Bus)' 
        && carMake.Mfr_CommonName !== 'Navistar'
        && carMake.Mfr_CommonName !== 'Buel'
        && carMake.Mfr_CommonName !== 'Peterbilt'
      ) {
      let pullCarModelsData = await axios.get(`${baseURL}${allModelsByMake}${carMake.Mfr_CommonName.replaceAll(' ', '%20')}${endOfURL}`)
      .catch(err => {console.log('ANOTHER ERROR', err)})
      let pulledCarModelsData = pullCarModelsData.data.Results;
      console.log('THIRD ERROR', pulledCarModelsData);

      pulledCarModelsData.forEach(carModel => {
        db.car.findOrCreate(
          {
          where: {
            make: `${carModel.Make_Name}`,
            model: `${carModel.Model_Name}`,
          }
        })
      })
    }
  })
}

Wireframe

Default Routes

Method	Path	Location	Purpose
GET	/	server.js	Home page
GET	/auth/login	auth.js	Login form
GET	/auth/signup	auth.js	Signup form
POST	/auth/login	auth.js	Login user
POST	/auth/signup	auth.js	Creates User
GET	/auth/logout	auth.js	Removes session info
GET	/profile	server.js	Regular User Profile
DELETE	/favorites/delete/id	/controllers/cars.js	Deletes from favorites
PUT	/favorites/edit/id	/controllers/cars.js	Updated favorite car image

Installation Instructions

1 Git clone https://github.com/lrakoto/auto-dex

2 Install the current dependencies that are listed inside of package.json

npm install

3 Create .env file

touch .env

4 Add credentials to .env

SECRET_SESSION="yoursession"
UKEY="Unsplash.com API key here"
USKEY="Unsplash.com API Secret key here"

5 Create database

npm install sequelize-cl
npx sequelize-cli db:create "databasename"

7 Create database

npm install sequelize-cl
npx sequelize-cli db:create "databasename"

8 Start server

npm start