Ledger

A centralized repository for professionals to track and log completed continuing education courses.

Link to project: Deployed version

How It's Made:

Tech used: JavaScript, Node, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose, Multer, TailwindCSS, HTML, CSS

Professionals in the healthcare and education fields often have to complete yearly continuing education (CE) courses or hours. Tracking and organizing all the information and documentation can be a hassle. As a former Speech-Language Pathologist, I became frustrated with not having one place for everything to live.

Ledger aims to be a centralized online space to be able to track it all. A full stack web app, it is a platform aimed to be a streamlined resource for professionals such as SLPs, OTs, PTs, and more to be able to track information about CE with the option to upload the certificates of completion.

Optimizations

• Rebuilding with React

Goal Features:

• Google account authentication with Passport.js
• Change/forgot/reset passwords
• Tracking hours remaining for national license
• Tracking hours remaining for state license
• Adjustable CE cycles
• Uploading CE certificates
• Export CE transcript as a PDF
• Personal notes for each course
• Marking CE as "in progress"
• User-generated tags for CE
• Filtering table
• Searching CEs

Lessons Learned:

Lots! Mapping through user flow, prototyping with Figma, styling with TailwindCSS rather than vanilla CSS.

• Logout error - uninstalling Passport 0.6 and reinstalling Passport 0.5 instead
• Ensuring Multer is included in route when handling multi-part forms

Install

npm install

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Things to add

• Create a .env file in config folder and add the following as key = value
  • PORT = 2121 (can be any port example: 3000)
  • DB_STRING = your database URI
  • CLOUD_NAME = your cloudinary cloud name
  • API_KEY = your cloudinary api key
  • API_SECRET = your cloudinary api secret

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Run

npm start