NASA Mission Control Project

Overview

This is a full-stack MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) application that simulates a NASA Mission Control Dashboard. It allows users to schedule launches to habitable exoplanets and view historical launch data.

The project uses:

• Client: React (with Arwes sci-fi UI framework)
• Server: Node.js with Express and Mongoose
• Database: MongoDB

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, Arwes, React Router
• Backend: Node.js, Express, Mongoose, csv-parse
• Database: MongoDB
• Testing: Jest, Supertest
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18 or v20 recommended)
• NPM
• MongoDB (running locally on port 27017, or use the included Docker setup)

Installation

1. Clone the repository.

2. Install dependencies for both client and server:

   npm install

   This command runs npm install in both client/ and server/ directories.

Running the Application

Development

To run both client and server in parallel (watch mode):

npm run watch

• Client: http://localhost:3000
• Server: http://localhost:8000

Production

To build the client and start the server:

npm run deploy

This builds the React app into server/public and starts the Node server.

Testing

To run tests for both client and server:

npm test

Server tests use an in-memory MongoDB instance.

API Documentation

The server exposes a REST API at http://localhost:8000/v1.

• GET /v1/planets: Get all habitable planets.
• GET /v1/launches: Get all launches.
• POST /v1/launches: Schedule a new launch.
• DELETE /v1/launches/:id: Abort a launch.

Docker

You can also run the application using Docker.

docker build -t nasa-project .
docker run -p 8000:8000 nasa-project