- Are you trying to program a healthy routine but avoiding the harder exercises? Use Exercise Programmer to automate the process!
- Create a randomised healthy blend for your training sesh :->
- Feel good about yourself. Aww yeah
- Add an exercise to the exercise bank, specifying its name, focus and difficulty out of 5
- See the full list of exercises available via pagination
- Generate a single random exercise for yourself
- Generate a fully randomised training programme of multiple exercises!
- React
- React Router
- TailwindCSS
- Material Design icons
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Mongo DB Atlas
- Express
- Node
- Mocha
- Install Node.js LTS
- Sign up for a free MongoDB Atlas account
- Follow the steps to create a cluster, and within that cluster, a database called exercise_programmer. See the MongoDB Atlas docs
- Ensure you allow the IP address of your machine to connect to your MongoDB cluster. Find out your IP address
- Open a Terminal from the root directory /exercise-programmer with two tabs
- From the root directory /exercise-programmer
npm i
- In one tab, run the following commands:
cd ./frontendnpm i
- In a second tab, run the following commands:
cd ./backendnpm i
- From the ./backend directory, create a file called .env
- Fill it with the following environment variables:
MONGO_DB_CONNECTION_STRING=[your connection string in MongoDB Atlas]DB_NAME=exercise_programmerPORT=5001REACT_APP_ORIGIN=http://localhost:3000
- From the ./frontend directory, create another file called .env
- Fill it with the following environment variable:
REACT_APP_API_BASE_URL=http://localhost:5001/api/
- From the ./frontend directory, run
npm start - From the ./backend directory, run
nodemon index.ts
- From the ./backend directory, ensure the API is not running and run the command
npm run test