brian-teets/eventtrackerproject

Event Tracker Project - Using Angular Framework

Weekend Project for Skill Distillery: SD33 cohort

Learning Objectives

• Configure an Angular application
  • Use:
    • Components
    • Services
    • Directives
  • Send and receive JSON
  • Send asynchronous request to Java controller with http

Project Overview

This event tracker project is an exercise in keeping track of information over time and persisting information to a database.

This projects takes an iterative approach. Build a backend using Java, SQL, and testing in Postman. Then, create a dynamic front end using plain Javascript and HTML to interact with the backend and take advantage of the CRUD operations. Then, build a more modular, easier to use frontend using the Angular framework to replace the plan Javascript and HTML from the previous weekend.

My Project Implementation - Personal Water Tracker

For my project, I decided to create a personal water tracker to log water intake.

For this iteration of the project, I created an Angular frontend.

How to Run

• Project has a front end and can be viewed via link to project domain name on my AWS EC2 server: http://52.8.112.153:8080/WaterTracker/

• For reference, here are the backend controller routes:

Return Type	Route	Functionality
List<Water>	GET api/water	READ Operation to show list of all water log entries.
Water object	GET api/water/{id}	READ Operation to show a water log entry by its id.
Water object	POST api/water	CREATE Operation to create a new water log entry.
Water object	PATCH api/water/{id}	UPDATE Operation to update an existing water log entry by its id.
Boolean	DELETE api/water/{id}	DELETE Operation to delete a water log entry by its id.

Technologies Used

• Java
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Boot
• Jpa Repository
• SQL
• REST
• Postman
• git
• AWS EC2
• Javascript
• HTML
• Angular

Lessons Learned

• Gained hands on experience creating and configuring an Angular project using the Angular CLI.
• Gained experience using the Angular DatePipe to transform the presentation of date / timestamps in the browser.
• Learned a lesson on where it's best to place a click event.