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moodhue

Use moodhue to track your moods. Select a color that best matches your current mood! Your moodhues will be saved to your history, so you can look at a beautiful visual representation of how you've been feeling.

Built using:

jQuery
Node.js
Express
EJS: Front-end templating.
Bootstrap
Moment.js: This library allows for easy manipulation of and display of time.
MongoDB

Deployed on Heroku at https://moodhue.herokuapp.com

To run moodhue locally:

Clone this GitHub repo. Once it's downloaded, open your terminal and run npm install to get the correct dependencies. Start MongoDB and Node by running mongod and nodemon in two separate terminal tabs. Head to localhost:3000 to begin recording your moods!

To Do:

My original plan was much more ambitious: a user would only be able to choose moods at 3 times during the day (morning, noon, and night). I worried too much about some "extras" such as timing logic before making sure that I had the basic functionality down, and didn't actually have that working until the day before the project was due. If I'd started there and built on top of that, I would have been happier with the result when it was due.

The only page taking advantage of EJS is the user history page. I had intended to move all of the header information into EJS partials as well, but ran out of time to do so.

I used Moment.js to show the time of day (morning, afternoon, or evening) and the day of the week on the index page. While I found Moment to be a great tool, I wasn't able to work out a way to implement it in the EJS template that renders the user moods. I am going to continue working on this and in v.2 will be adding a CSS hide/show that shows the date that the mood was added on mouseover.

I think this app has a lot of potential and I will continue working on it!