Super Galactic Age Calculator

By: Katie Pundt

An application to determine how many years a user has left to live on various planets, based off of current age and life expectancy.

Technologies Used

HTML
CSS
Bootstrap
JavaScript
jQuery
npm
webpack
eslint
jest
popperjs/core
git
GitHub

Description

The application will allow users to input their current age and the average life expectancy for their demographic. The application will take that input and calculate how many years the user has left to live on Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.

Setup/Installation Requirements

Navigate to https://github.com/kpundt93/super-galactic-age-calculator
Click on the green "Code" button and copy the repository URL or click on the copy button
Open the terminal on your desktop
Once in the terminal, use it to navigate to your desktop folder
Once inside your desktop folder, use the command git clone https://github.com/kpundt93/super-galactic-age-calculator.git
After cloning the project, navigate into it using the command cd super-galactic-age-calculator
Use the command git remote to confirm the creation of the new local repository
Install project dependencies by running the command npm install
If you receive errors in the terminal, try running npm install again, sometimes npm can be finicky
After installing npm, run the command npm run build
Then run the command npm run start to start the project server and view the application (use cmd + c to exit the server in the terminal)
Open the project with the code editor of your choice
If you would like to test the code, return to the project in the terminal and run the command npm test
If you have the Jest extension installed for VS Code, you can also test the code there.

Troubleshooting

If you are receiving errors regrading webpack, try running the command npm install webpack@4.39.3 --save-dev --save-exact, then run npm run build again
If you continue to have issues setting up the environment, try deleting the package-lock.json file and the node_modules folder from the project. Then rebuild the environment by running npm install again.

Known Bugs

No known bugs

Contact Information

Katie Pundt, kzpundt@gmail.com

License

MIT License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

kpundt93/super-galactic-age-calculator