The COVID-19 App

Overview

The COVID-19 App was created by Toucans Team 3 for Chingu Voyage 28.

LIVE LINK : https://whispering-meadow-20690.herokuapp.com/

Features

• Shows the total and new number of people infected by/who have died due to/who have recovered from COVID
• Shows nearby clinics and hospitals based on where you are or by a city search
• Gives the users some symptoms of Covid19
• Provides users with self-care tips
• Shows news related to COVID from the New York Times

Tech Used / Dependencies

• HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, jQuery, and Node.js were used to make this project

• Various links are included to various resources:

  • Red Cross
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Stanford

• Icons from Font Awesome

• Fonts from Google Fonts

• Slick for news slideshow

• CountUp.js for number count up animations

• Animation on Scroll (AOS) used for on-scroll animations

How to Run Locally

1. <cd into the project directory>
2. Create a .env file with API_KEY= <<YOUR NEW YORK TIMES API KEY HERE>> as well as PORT= <<PORT NUMBER OF YOUR CHOICE HERE>> and place it in the project directory (same level as the public folder).
3. <run npm install>
4. <run npm start>