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frazie/HospitalLocator-KE

Domaine:

healthcaregeospatial

Type de record:

software
Créateur:
fra
Hôte:
this is a fullstack application that allows the user to get information of any health facility within the area they want. This is currentl developed to work in Kenya add screenshot over here a GIF perticularly ![Screenshot] # Introduction Finding a hospital during emergecnies can be very hectic especially when in a fairly new area, even in your own country. The need for this application came about when I was was in a similar situation and Google wasn't the best way but eventually I got to a healthy facility but this took a while. After this, I therefore, choose to develop a way by which one could find the nearest medical or health facility within one's location. This created Hospital Locator. # How Hospital Locator Works To get the available hospital facilities within one's area. you simply have to search your location and the results will be a list of all medical facilities within the region in Kenya. # Check Out the Live Application! The app does not require any form of login making it much more accessible to anyone at anytime. Currently, I am testing the application by hosting it on Cyclic since Heroku announces their plans to drop their free hosting. visit the live site hosted on Cyclic --- > Be sure to add that lovely star 😀 --- ## How It's Made: **Tech used:** HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, Code For Africa ## Optimizations I have added a lot of features to this over time, especially with the code formatting. Initially, I had all back-end operations within a single file but I changed this after getting a good command of the MVC structure!!! Getting the right information for the project was quite the challenge but after extensive brainstorming and research, I found Code For Africa which has a range of APIs built with various African facts and information. In my case, I settled for their health tools API which allowed me to fetch the data and further break it down to my needed structural objects. ## Lessons Learned: Every project is a lesson learned in CSS! Still need work to work on this though I also became more comfortable with navigating MVC architecture. ## Future Improvements: Currently …