COVID-19-State-Tracker

Bringing together the most important pieces of information concerning COVID-19 in your State, all in one place!

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COVID-19-State-Tracker: All the information regarding COVID-19 in your state in one place!

Project Details

Throughout the past 3 months, there has been a lot of different information regarding COVID-19 spreading through news media outlets. That was until now, with the COVID-19 State Tracker, one can easily find out important pieces of information regarding the COVID-19 Situation in their respective state whilst being able to chat with an IBM Watson Bot with any questions/concerns they may have and browse through important news regarding COIVD-19 in their state.

Technologies Utilized

  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Request
  • Body Parser
  • Heroku

How I Built It

The Programming

For the backend I used Node.js as my script and connected it with my middleware utilizing Express. Through using Node.js, I was able to make Restful API Requests and parse through the data and display it through Embedded JavaScript. As for the front-end, I used HTML/CSS, and some additional Javascript. Furthermore, I created an IBM COVID-19 Watson Chatbot through which users can ask more than 70 different questions/commands regarding COVID-19 and will be responded with detailed answers. Lastly, in order to convey some helpful news, I added a feature using a news API for the latest COIVD-19 news in the state the user searches up.

Deploying

In order to deploy my site and make it accessible for other users to use, I deployed my web app using Heroku.

Challenges I Ran Into

One of the largest challenges I faced was connecting the EJS (Embedded Javascript) to the JavaScript file I was running off of my server. However, after a couple hours, I figured out how to correctly mainpulate the index file through sending a response from my server.

Audience of My Web App

I envision the audience of my web app to be healthcare workers/constituents in our society who are looking to find concise statistics regarding the COVID-19 Situation in their respective states without having to scour the internet. Instead, I believe my web app can help our society in the terms of centralizing a place for reliable data.

Accomplishments I am Proud Of

I was able to make this full stack web app all from scratch and without using any pre-made projects. Furthermore, I believe the simplistic yet effective UI is key in order to bring more of a larger audience.

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