WORLDWIDE TRAVEL ALERT

Even after the worst storms, the sun will shine again there are many more to come. So keep calm and stay home. 😉

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation
• Notes
• Acknowledgement

Overview

• Worldwide Travel Alert is a simple mobile-friendly web application for travellers to check if there are any alerts for their trips.

• The alerts are retrieved from the Government of Canada database.

• The features include:

  • Updating the existing database.
  • Searching for alerts of a specific country in a region, subregion, or by a traveller.
  • Adding new alerts by traveller.

Installation

• Clone the repo

• Install packages in both frontend and backend

  cd backend/
  npm install
  cd ../frontend/
  npm install

• Build the frontend and copy it to the backend

  cd ../backend/
  npm run build:ui

• Start up the application

  npm start

• By default, the application is started at http://localhost:5000

Notes

• Frontend is a React application created with create-react-app package.
• UI is built with Material UI framework.
• Backend runs on Node.js and is built with Express.js.
• Communication between frontend and backend uses GraphQL queries.
• A simple data validation is implemented in the input form to validate users' input data when they add new advisories.

Acknowledgement

• Worldwide Travel Alert is a case study of INFO-3139 course at Fanshawe College.
• Special thanks to Professor Evan Lauersen for his detailed instruction.
• Special thanks to a weird person for motivating me to finish this project before the deadline.