Mars Photos

The purpose of this project is for users to quickly lookup mars images gathered by NASA's Perseverance, Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit rovers on a particular solar day and camera. Results can be filtered by solar day and/or camera. Queries by solar day can range from 0, which is the date of landing, up to the current maximum in the database.

Demo

Please see this demo deployed at: https://codergirl01.github.io/mars-deploy-app/

How to run on localhost:

1. Clone the project to local

git clone https://github.com/codergirl01/mars-photos-project.git

2. Run npm install

cd client
npm install

This command installs all the packages used in this project. Alternatively, packages can be installed individually:

dotenv

npm i dotenv

API keys are stored in the .env file and uses process.env to access these API keys. Please see documentation on this: Documentation. API keys used in this project will need to be registered and obtained through Mars Photo API.

Set your API key in an environment variable on your local machine then in the code, read API keys from the environment variable by using process.env.

3. Run app

Example

cd client
npm run dev

This will provide a port where it renders the app on your local server.