FoodBud

FoodBud

Authors:

Dan Moraru, Amir Mojtahedi, Oleksandr Sologub, Samir Abo-Assfour

Description:

MERN stack app containing large data set of foods. Allows the user to search and calculate total nutrition and daily value, as well as create a user account and create, update and delete custom food. Additionally, allows creating nutrition goals to track progress. App is hosted on Azure.

Data units

NOTE: All servings are in 100 grams

1. Name
2. Calories
3. Fat (g)
4. Protein (g)
5. Carbohydrate (g)
6. Sugars (g)
7. Fiber (g)
8. Cholesterol (mg)
9. Calcium (mg)
10. Iron, Fe (mg)
11. Vitamin C (mg)
12. Vitamin D (mcg)
13. Vitamin B.12 (mcg)
14. Vitamin A, RAE (mcg)
15. Sodium (mg)
16. Potassium (mg)

Structure

There are two directories in the root of the project.

• The Express server is in server/
• The React app is in client/
• The server responds to API calls and serves the built React app.

Server and Client directories have their own modules and package.json

Setup

NOTE: Make sure to have .env file in root, server and in client

.env file will contain:

• CONNECTION_STRING=
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=
• SECRET=

variables for Azure deployment

• AZURE_SAS=
• CONTAINER_NAME=
• SACCOUNT_NAME=

Client .env should only need to contain

• REACT_APP_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=

To install all the dependencies and build the app:

npm run build

Seed database if haven't done already

cd server
npm run seed

Run Tests

npm run test

Run app in development

npm run dev
cd client
npm start

Click y to accept new port for proxy

Run app in production (after build)

npm run start

Attributions

• Food data

• Daily Value data

• Google OAuth2

• Icons