README.md

Visitor-Profiler

https://visitor-tracker.home.jgarrettcorbin.com/hit

A simple node app that collects header data from visitors, and gets the location of the visitors with API call to https://ipdata.co via Axios.

Installation

• Visit https://visitor-tracker.home.jgarrettcorbin.com/hit for a demo.

• Clone this repository git clone <repo address>

• Move into cloned directory cd Visitor-Tracker

• Install dependencies npm install

• Set up environment variables by renaming .env.EXAMPLE to .env and adding your mySQL username and password.

• Register an API key at https://ipdata.co and paste that key in the .env file beside API_KEY.

• Add new database to mySQL CREATE DATABASE visitor_db;

• Start server npm start

• Navigate to http://localhost:3004/stats (port can be changed in the .env file)

• Create a link or fetch/axios/ajax request to http://localhost:3004/hit to record the IP of the visitor.

Deployed link

https://visitor-tracker.home.jgarrettcorbin.com/hit

Built With

• react.js
• node.js
• express.js
• sequelize
• mySQL
• ipdata.co

Authors

Garrett Corbin

• https://github.com/platevoltage/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-corbin-7a7777227/

License

This project is licensed under The MIT license