grassHeap 🦗

A lot of task/to-do apps work on a timeframe of days or hours. On the other hand, gardening works in the timeframe of months. grassHeap is a responsive Single-Page App that tracks and suggests tasks for the month and for the specific plants in your garden. Powered by the GrowStuff API.

You can view the app at https://grassheap.onrender.com

Features

• Displays a random gif based on results of weather API.
• Populates default tasks from database by relevant month and for your garden's plants. These tasks cannot be deleted.
• Pulls a list of plants and further details from the GrowStuff API (https://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff/wiki/API-Version-0).
• Allows you to save custom tasks to database and delete them.
• Works on desktop and mobile.

ROADMAP

• Styling Location Prompt.
• General App styling.
• Display showing MyPlants.
• User Auth.
• Search functionality.
• More detailed weather report.

Running the App Locally

You will need a running instance of mongoDB

• Add a .env file according to .env-example format (you will need a free API key from openweather and from GIPHY

• Run npm i in the server and client folders.

• Run npm start in client.

• Run npm start in server.

  ( To see the full app, import some default tasks into your mongoDB grassHeap database, tasks collection using https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XVkuqPTibBkkK4_KE3KlAV9ufz_iZ7O8Ly-iar14ybE/edit?usp=sharing )

Contributors

Testing, TypeScript implementation and bug fixes by @CalimeRon and @juan-calle 🐛