Doctor Finder

This web app returns a list of doctors from the BetterDoctor API when given a search term. {January 2017}

By Brad Copenhaver

Description

This program uses the BetterDoctor.com API to retrieve a list of doctors and information about those doctors. Users can search by keyword or by ailment from a list of ailments supplied by BetterDoctor. Search location and search radius can be chosen from drop-down lists.

Setup/Installation Requirements

Instructions assume that the user has installed Node and Bower package managers. See https://nodejs.org/en/ or https://bower.io/ for more info.

1. Clone this GitHub repository.
2. Navigate to the repository in the command prompt and run >npm install.
3. Run >bower install jquery then >bower install bootstrap.
4. Request an API key from https://developer.betterdoctor.com/.
5. In the repository directory, create a file .env containing the following code with your API key inserted: exports.apiKey = "YOUR-API-KEY";.
6. From the command prompt, run >gulp build then >gulp serve.
7. In a web browser, navigate to localhost:3000.

Known Bugs

None yet, mostly due to lack of testing.

Possible future version features

Make search results link to detailed information on that doctor. Add pagination.

Support and contact details

If you have questions or comments, contact the author at bradcopenhaver@gmail.com

Technologies Used

• Javascript
• jQuery
• Node.js
• Bower
• html/css
• Bootstrap

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2017 Brad Copenhaver