Data Collector Web App

Built with Express, MongoDB, & React, deployed to Google Cloud 🚀

Features

• Local Authentication using Email and Password
• Material UI
• Account Management
• Profile picture
• Profile Details
• Change Password
• Forgot Password
• Reset Password
• Delete Account
• Security
• Secure cookies

Requirements

Node (Tested on v16) MongoDB (Tested on v5)

Install

After installing Node.js:

$ npm i
$ npm i -g nodemon
$ npm i -g forever

Run

$ npm run start

Sign Up

Signing up is currently locked down to admin@1.com to prevent multiple users

Deployment on Google Cloud Platform - Compute

See this link for instructions setting up a MEAN application on Google Cloud

Re-deploy on GCP

• Run build script from frontend/package.json
• Create a build.zip file & upload to a new Github release
• SSH into the GCP VM

$ sudo su - bitnami
$ cd /home/bitnami/apps/collector/htdocs/
$ git pull
Download build.zip from https://github.com/schulzetenberg/data-collector/releases & unzip to frontend/  (the index.html path should be ~/apps/collector/htdocs/frontend/build/index.html)
$ cd ..
$ ./start-data-collector.sh

Agenda Scheduler

http://localhost:3000/agenda/

Run Locally (Backend)

• $ npm i
• $ npm run start
• Express server will start on localhost:3000

Run Locally (Frontend)

• $ npm i
• $ npm run build (first time only)
• $ npm run start
• Local web server will start & open webpage to localhost:8999, with a proxy to the backend server on port 3000