Exercise Programmer

• 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

Features

• 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!

Tools and Technologies Used

• React
• React Router
• TailwindCSS
• Material Design icons
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Mongo DB Atlas
• Express
• Node
• Mocha

How to Run the App

Prerequisites

• 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

1. Install NPM packages

• 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 ./frontend
  • npm i
• In a second tab, run the following commands:
  • cd ./backend
  • npm i

2. Create environment variables

• 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_programmer
  • PORT=5001
  • REACT_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/

3. Launch the app in development mode

• From the ./frontend directory, run npm start
• From the ./backend directory, run nodemon index.ts

How to Test the App

• From the ./backend directory, ensure the API is not running and run the command npm run test