Pet Reminder

A program for veterinarians to simplify keeping track of and reminding pet owners of vaccinations for dogs and cats. Pet Reminder allows the user to send SMS messages to clients to remind them of an upcoming need for care. The user can filter their list of clients by name, pet name, when upcoming care is needed or when it was last done. If the user indicated the care has been completed by clicking a "complete" button for a specific reminder, the app calculates the next time the same care will be needed and adds a new reminder to the database for the upcoming date.

Built With

JavaScript
HTML5
CSS3
React
React-Redux
Redux-Saga
NodeJS
ExpressJS
PostgreSQL
PassportJS
Twilio
Material-UI
Font Awesome
Google Fonts

Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:

Node.js
PostrgeSQL
Nodemon
Twilio account with phone number enabled to send SMS messages, sign up at: https://www.twilio.com/

Getting Started

In postgresql create a database named 'pet_reminders_app'.

In the database run the SQL queries found in the database.sql to CREATE TABLEs.

If you would like to name your database something else, you will need to change prime_app to the name of your new database name in server/modules/pool.js

Run npm install
Create a .env file at the root of the project and paste this line into the file:
```
SERVER_SESSION_SECRET=superDuperSecret
TWILIO_SID = twiloSID
TWILIO_TOKEN = twilioToken
TWILIO_SENDER = twilioPhoneNumber
```
While you're in your new .env file, take the time to replace superDuperSecret with some long random string like 25POUbVtx6RKVNWszd9ERB9Bb6 to keep your application secure. Here's a site that can help you: https://passwordsgenerator.net/. If you don't do this step, create a secret with less than eight characters, or leave it as superDuperSecret, you will get a warning. Replace twilioSID , twilioToken and twilioPhoneNumber with the corresponding values from the twilio account and number you will be using.
Start postgres if not running already by using brew services start postgresql
Run npm run server
Run npm run client
Navigate to localhost:3000

Lay of the Land

src/ contains the React application
public/ contains static assets for the client-side
build/ after you build the project, contains the transpiled code from src/ and public/ that will be viewed on the production site
server/ contains the Express App

Next Steps