neo-lookup

Near-Earth-Object Lookup

This tool will show you the near-earth-asteroids that are making a close pass on each day for the coming week. The tool has the ability to show NEOs for any date or a date range, so let's build that out together, fren.

Live Demo

setup

1. clone
2. npm i
3. get a NASA API key here
4. setup .env file to match the example .env.default format using the NASA API you acquired
5. npm start
6. navigate to localhost:3000 in a browser

dev

The app uses express/pug as a backend to spin up locally.

• The routes/index.js file handles the request to localhost:3000 -- gets the API data, stringifies it, and passes it via express arg to index.pug
• The views/index.pug file handles the UI of the page, but it also extends views/layout.pug -- which is important...
• The views/layout.pug file imports public/javascripts/main.js (which is where most of our display/transform logic lives) and parses the JSON data string back into a JSON object (because I can't figure out how to pass an object vs a string as a param from express -> pug...)
• The public/javascripts/main.js file handles the logic to transform the data into UI elements for display

data

Data sourced from this API from JPLs database