maxWellness

Allows personal trainers to track their workouts and those of their clients.

I built this website entirely by myself, and creating it is the main way I taught myself to code before landing my first job as a frontend dev.

I've begun work on v2 of this project.

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Requirements

You'll need Node.js, Yarn, and NVM (Node Version Manager) installed on your machine to run this locally.

Node can be installed by following the instructions at nodejs.org.

Yarn can then be added:

npm install --global yarn

You can add NVM by following the instructions at @nvm-sh/nvm.

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Installation

Clone the repo onto your machine and cd into it:

git clone https://github.com/maxmonis/maxWellness.git
cd maxWellness

Get the latest recommended version of Node JS (stored in .nvmrc):

nvm use

Download all server and client dependencies:

yarn devsetup

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Configuration

Add a file to hold the JWT secret and the URI of the development database on MongoDB:

touch config/default.json

Create a JSON object in that file with a key of "mongoURI" and value of "mongodb+srv://maxmonis:" + "9O89LVHTusqobbhF@workoutappdev." + "2gnvx.mongodb.net/" + "?retryWrites=true&w=majority" (concatenate those strings together, I just would like to avoid committing the actual full value).

Add a key of "jwtSecret" with a value you'd like to use as your secret. Here's an example:

NOTE: I'll need to whitelist your IP address to allow you to access the database, so please feel free to reach out 😊

Alternatively, you can set up your own database on MongoDB and use that URI.

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Development

Concurrently start the server on port 5000 and the client on port 3000:

nvm use
yarn dev

Note that you only need to run nvm use the first time you start it up in any working session, since from then on you should already be using the correct version of Node and yarn dev should work fine.

To start the server alone in development mode:

yarn serve

To start the app alone in development mode:

cd app
yarn start

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Production build

To start the server in production mode:

yarn start

To create a production build of the app:

cd app
yarn build

Deployment

Note the build and start scripts in the root package.json for building and deploying the server and client together on render.com.

Install all server and client dependencies, then build the application:

yarn build

Start the server:

yarn start