COVID-19 Tracker

A desktop Node.js app to track and get COVID-19 updates on desktop through notifications. Also stores stats through constant snapshots Uses Worldometers in the background.

Prerequisites

1. Node.js
2. NPM (Comes bundled with Node.js)
3. pm2 (Optional)

npm install pm2 -g

Getting Started

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/harshit-sinha-developer/covid-19-tracker.git

2. Run npm install

npm install

3. Get data as notifications

npm start

4. Schedule notifications

npm run schedule

5. Run scheduler in background

pm2 start schedule.js

Configuration

1. Select list of countries to get notifications for - Uncomment countries in the enabled_countries_regions.js
   Default - USA, Canada, India, World

2. Select status to display - Uncomment fields in notificationFields property in config.js
   Default - Total Cases, New Cases

3. Cron scheduling Update the field cronScheduler in config.js Refer - https://support.acquia.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004224494-Cron-time-string-format
   Default - Once every four hours

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.

Authors

• Harshit Sinha - Initial work - Github

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

Acknowledgments

• Worldometers