TrackGols: Back-end Layer

TrackGols is a personalized web application designed for users to effectively track and manage their goals. This web application provides users with customizable goal tracking capabilities, enabling them to set a goal, create columns and tasks, and visually track their progress by seamlessly dragging and dropping tasks across different columns. With TrackGols, achieving your goals has never been easier and fun!

Technology Stack

• Database: Mongodb
• Backend: Node.js & Express
• Front-end: React

Dependencies

• brew
• npm
• node
• express
• mongodb
• docker

How To Set Up TrackGols's Back-end Layer

• Install docker by running these commands in the terminal:
  • docker pull mongodb/mongodb-community-server
  • docker run --name mongo -d mongodb/mongodb-community-server:latest
  • docker container ls
  • docker run -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root -e MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -p 27017:27017 mongo
• Install mongo by running these commands in the terminal:
  • brew tap mongodb/brew
  • brew install [email protected]
• Run this code on the root directory to restore database:
  • mongorestore -d trackgols -u root -p root --authenticationDatabase admin --drop --stopOnError --gzip dataBackup/trackgols
• Run this code on the root directory to install dependencies:
  • npm install
• Create a .env file on the root directory and add these variables:
  • PORT = 3001
  • CONNECTION_STRING = "mongodb://root:root@localhost:27017/"
  • DB_NAME = "trackgols"
• Run the server with:
  • npm start

Potential Future Enhancements

• Deployment
• Users can rearrange columns
• Users can create multiple boards
• Users can sign in/create an account to save progress
• Users can add a due date to a goal
• Users can change the color theme of the board