This project is a medical alert app 📢.

🩺Medical emergencies are unpredictable.

🚑Ambulances take patients to the ER over 16 million times per year in the US.

                    ⚠During these emergencies:

❌Someone may not be immediately available to assist you.

❌Bystanders may not be aware that you need help.

                    ✅This app allows you to:

1️. Call 911 & your emergency contacts

2️. Text your emergency contacts

3️. Activate a distress alarm to alert bystanders that you need help

4️. Store brief medical info that emergency responders may need when attending to you

➡Please Note: Due to Twilio's requirements, the call & text features won't work in your local environment. To test these features, please use the deployed App.

-------- Demo Video -------

Medz+_Demo_1.mp4

-------- Demo Deployment -------

https://medz-plus-client.herokuapp.com/ ➡Please Note: 1)This demo uses a Twilio trial account with a limited $ balance. Once the funds are exhausted, call & text features won't work. 2)Calls are limited to Canadian phone #s.

-------- Run Locally -------

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/natvrey/natalie-reynolds-capstone-medz.git

Go to the project directory

  cd natalie-reynolds-capstone-medz-main

Install dependencies

Because this app is made of 3 npm projects, there are 3 places to run npm commands:

1) Node API in the server directory.
2) React UI in client directory.
3) React UI in the example directory (*This is where Twilio's Messages UI is located,
& npm install has to be run in this folder also. *This Twilio UI is accessed from the
app's Home Page, when the "Text Emergency Contact" button is clicked).

👇See detailed instructions below.

Run the API server

In a terminal:

# Always change directory, first
cd server

# Initial setup
npm install

# Start the server
npm start

Run the React UI - Three Parts

(Part 1)

In a separate terminal from the API server, initialize the React UI:

# Always change directory, first
cd client

# Initial setup
npm install

(Part 2)

In a separate terminal from "Part 1" above, initialize the Twilio Messages UI:

# Always change directory, first
cd client/example

# Initial setup
npm install

(Part 3)

In the same terminal from "Part 1", start the React & Twilio UIs concurrently:

# Check to ensure that you're still in the client directory

# Start the UI
npm start

**For Part 3, the start script has already been configured to start the React & Twilio UIs concurrently 😊.