betterDoctor: A JavaScript repository from JohnSawiris

Better Doctor

This website help users finding a doctor that provides the care they need. The user may enter a medical issue into a form and specify their location from drop down menu options (Portland, OR or Seattle, WA) and optionally a doctor name it could be first or last name and they will receive a list of doctors that matches their search criteria

Specs

User enters medical issue and location Portland, OR

Input: stomach
Output: A list of doctors who can provide care for this medical issue

User enters doctor name and location Portland, OR

Input: Matthew
Output: A list of doctors that their names contain Matthew

User enters doctor name and location Seattle, WA

Input: David
Output: A list of doctors that their names contain David

User enters a medical issue that doesn't match a records

Input: Toothache
Output: No matches found

Setup

Instructions:

In order for this project to work, make sure you have NodeJS installed of your machine. To install NodeJS visit this URL: https://nodejs.org/en/ and follow the installing Instructions.

To be able to make API calls, you will need to make an account and get an API key visit this URL: https://developer.betterdoctor.com/ and login if you have an account or sign up for one and get you API key.

In terminal:

$ cd Desktop
$ git clone https://github.com/JohnSawiris/betterDoctor.git
$ cd betterDoctor
$ npm install
$ bower install

Now you have all the project dependencies are installed. Now all you need to have is API key and it should be saved in a variable inside a file called .env, this file should be on the top level of the project directory.

Follow the following instructions to create the .env:

These instructions assumes you have atom text editor installed on your machine

At the top level of the project directory

$ touch .env
$ atom .env

This should open the file in atom text editor, inside of the .env file type the following to save your API key

exports.apiKey=[YOUR API KEY HERE];

Bugs

There's no known bugs

Improvements

Add functionality to sort doctors based on the location
List insurance providers

Technologies

HTML
JavaScript & jQuery
AJAX
Sass
NodeJs
Bootstrap

JohnSawiris/betterDoctor