Nordic Numbers

Why

Nordic Numbers is intended to be a WebApp to enable Lander Skiers/Coaches/Parents to better analyze a skier's results.

Who

Originally this was Ryan Buchmeier's project. But, since starting to mentor Josh Goodrich, he is also invited to collaborate. Also, Brennen Mazur is also invited as a way to hone his skills and start developing a portfolio. Soon, I intend to make this open source, but I would like to get the basic stack up and running first

The Result

Minimum

At minimum, we want the following functionality:

• %-back on ski times
• Look at multiple, specific skiers' times/%-back over multiple races
• Enter a cleaned results sheet and have it entered into the system

  Goals

  Now, you can be pretty basic with the above, so we would like to have the following:

• A decent UI (It should be Norm-accessable)
• A decent UX (Parents should enjoy this)
• Realiable, reasonably fast

  Dreams

  We are developers, making dreams come true is what we do. Here are some of ours:

• Graphics! Charts! Rainbows!
• Information can be automatically updated to NordicNumbers (maybe even like live-timing or splits?!?)

The Stack

Front End

• React (Framework(/library))
• Redux (or some State-manager)
• d3.js (eventually, for charts)
• Bootstrap (good css is hard..., but we are probably changing to css-grid soon)
• Scss (not necessary, may be fun)

Back End:

• Node (Base platform, currently the webserver as well (which could be gone by nginx...but we probably don't need to get that fancy until we get bigger)
• MongoDB (Persistant Storage)
• Webpack (bundling)
• Jest/Enzyme (Testing)
• Express (Routing)

DevOps/DataScience

• Docker (for containerizing applications)
• Python (parse excel files) - Yes, Nordic Numbers was supposed to be "full stack"...but parsing anything except json and xml in javascript SUCKS

Installing

Github

• Make directory for nordic numbers and cd into it
• git clone https://github.com/mariomarine/nordicNumbers

  Node (React)

• Make sure npm and node are up to date (my current method for doing so below)
  • node -v or npm -v. Expected versions are npm 5 and node 8
  • sudo npm cache clean -f
  • sudo npm install -g n
  • sudo n stable
  • (Note: You may have to restart your terminal)
• Run npm install
• run npm run build to make sure everything installed right
  • A potential problem here is that the public folder does not exist. In which case: mkdir src/client/public

    Scripts (Python)

• Get virtualenv up and running with python 3