Correl

Correlation station! Choo choo! 🚉

See it here: https://correl-symptom-tracker.herokuapp.com/

Description

Correl is an application that allows users to enter symptoms they are suffering with and potentially contributing factors to see any correlations between them over time.

User Journey/User Stories

As a user, I can...

• Easily set up an account
• Enter a symptom (ie. fatigue, itchy skin, stress)
• Enter an external factor (ie. water intake, exercise)
• Customise my scale to rate symptoms and factors in a way that is meaningful to me
• Easily rate my symptom(s) and factor(s) daily using my custom scale
• See a graph of my symptom and factor ratings over time
• Choose which data I want to show on my graph
• Find clear instructions on how to use the application

Gitflow

• assign yourself to an issue and add in-progress label 🚥
• starts work on issue
• commit work referencing issue add maybe adds an emoji 😄
• create a pull request
  • reference issue
  • add description of work completed
  • assign all of your team
  • if you are still working on the PR add [WIP] to the title (work in progress)
• everybody in the team reviews the PR - IMPORTANT!!! ⚠️
• the creator of the PR should respond to all the questions and/or make changes requested (or say why don't want to change has to be a good reason)
• the final team member to review should assign the QA and add awaiting-review label 🕐
• the QA will review and reassign the creator of the PR and unassign themself 👋
• this step repeats until the PR can be merged 🔀 and the branch deleted ❌

Setting up project locally

1. git clone https://github.com/fac-13/correl.git
2. npm install
3. run this command in the terminal (requires postgres installed): createdb correl
4. \i [copy full file path to dbbuild.sql]
5. create config.env
   • DB_URL=postgres://[username]:[password]@localhost:5432/correl
   • TEST_DB_URL=postgres://[username]:[password]@localhost:5432/correl
   • run the app: npm start

Tech Stack

• Express
• Handlebars
• d3
• PostgreSQL
• HTML/CSS
• Tape/Supertest

What we've learned

We learned a considerable amount about the iterative process of designing an app from scratch. What stands out from what we've learned:

• Collaborative process in working in small dev teams
• The various roles in a development team (ie. Scrum Master, QA, Devops, UX, etc)
• Using User Journeys/Problem Statements to guide a project and fine tune the end product
• The importance of the design process and figma sketch up before coding
• Testing with Travis
• Importance of MVP
• Benefits of Technical Spikes

Team Roles

Eade - Scrum Master

Jennah - QA

Jenath - Devops

Tammy - UX

Planning the Project

Creating our prototype in Figma

Creating our database schema