LeakSeeker

Built to help you purchase second hand with confidence

📋 Table of contents

• Overview

• Images

• Technologies

• Setup

• About

🔭 Overview

Welcome to LeakSeeker - a brand new web app, built from the ground up as a resource for uploading/ searching for common vehicle faults using a licence plate number. Designed out of a need for an comprehensive resource when looking at purchasing a used vehicle.

Current features include:

• Searching for user-submitted faults by vehicle model from a licence plate.

• Uploading a vehicle fault with the following properties:

  • Licence plate number
  • Make
  • Model
  • Year
  • In-depth description of the fault and price to fix
  • An image of the problem

• Data visualisation with Chart.js; enabling the user to inspect an overview of common problem areas, average repair price and number of faults per year.

• User rating system for users to log if they have experienced the same issue. The colour of the fault node border reflects the user score with a traffic light system:

  • Green = fault seen less than 10 times
  • Yellow = fault seen less than 50 times
  • Red = fault seen 50 + times

📸 Images

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🤖 Technologies

React	Express	Node.js	MongoDB	Mongoose	Chart.js

🛠️ Setup

1. To run LeakSeeker, clone and install it locally using npm:

$ git clone https://github.com/TheNoshman/leak-seeker.git

2. Next, navigate into the react and server directories and install dependancies in each:

$ npm install

3. Inside the server directory, configure the environment variables. See example-env.txt for reference:

4. Finally, start the application:

   • Launch MongoDB

   • Navigate into server and run nodemon index.js or node start - a message will be printed in the CLI upon a successful boot.

   • Navigate into the react directory and run npm start

📖 About

• LeakSeeker on LinkedIn