Attendance Tracker (AT)

AT is a web app that helps tracks attendance of students in a bootcamp or a coding school. It was initially developped for Kinshasa Digital Academy, Goma campus (2022), but AT app can be used in any small or mid-sized school.

Getting started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for usage, development and testing purposes. You can also view the demo app and test the app:

• usernam: admin
• pasword: admin123

Prerequisites

• have Nodejs installed
• have a running instance of an SQL database (Postgres)
• create a database (you'll need to add information in .env file)

Installation

• make a copy of this project
• cp .env.example .env and add all necessary database credentials
• run npm install to install all dependencies
• run npm run db:setup to create tables and populate them with dummy data

Working with the database migration

This section is optional, you can skip it. To manipulate Postgres database, I use Sequelize ORM. Here you can find some automated script to work with migratrion and seeding.

• npm run migrate:status: see the status of available migrations (up and/or down)

• npm run migrate: run the migration with the latest migration file

• npm run migrate:revert: revert migration

• npm run seed: seed db with dummy data (as for now, you'll have an admin user with admin123 as password)

• npm run seed:revert: revert seeding

• npx sequelize-cli db:seed(:undo) --seed filaName.js: execute a specific seed file

• npx sequelize-cli db:migrate:undo --name fileName.js: revert (down) a specific migration file

• npx sequelize-cli db:migrate --to fileName.js: run a specific migration file

Note: To work with the remote dabase, add --env production at the end of your CLI command.

Usage

• start the server with npm start
• Go to localhost:7000
• Username is: admin and password: admin123

License

This is an open source app licensed under the MIT license.