decision-support-tool

This decision-support-tool is a tool for social workers in Amsterdam who support families with complex problems. The tool helps the social workers with making an indication about the chance that a child has to be separated from the parents.

This application is built during a two week frontend application course in association with Garage2020. During this course, the focus was on improving the concept of the already existing application made by Garage2020 and building a new prototype using a framework. This application is built with a framework called Ember. Ember.js is an open-source JavaScript web framework.

Good to know: ⚠️ This app is still in progress, so some things may not work like you would expect them to work.

Functionalities

Data can be read and changed
Changes to data are reflected in the interface

To do:

Changes persist across page reloads
Values are based on the real algorithm
Risc-taxation can be saved and printed
...

Functionalities are based on the rubric of the frontend course.

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/sterrevangeest/decision-support-tool.git this repository
cd decision-support-tool
npm install

Running / Development

ember serve
Visit the app at http://localhost:4200.

Code Generators

Make use of the many generators for code, try ember help generate for more details

My process during the course

Before this course I have never worked with a big framework like Ember. So, when choosing a framework, I looked for a framework that was doable to learn and had good documentation.

Ember creates a lot of files and directories when you create a new application. In the beginning, I felt a little overwhelmed by all those files. But by following the tutorial and by building the application I found what all the different files and directories did.

In think that Ember is great for starting a small and simple application and slightly growing to a more complex application.

While using Ember I learnt the basics of this framework. I used components and templates, etc. I think that Ember has a lot of functionalities that I have not discovered yet. These functionalities can make building an application easier.

Pro’s & Cons of Ember

😃 Good documentation on Ember.js

😃 Nice tutorial from Ember for learning and understanding the basics of this framework.

😃 You can start coding quickly

😞 A lot of files and directory’s can make you feel lost sometimes

😞 Writing tests takes a lot of time and effort.

😞 When you don’t write a test you can get a lot of errors while starting the server