attendance-system

Some worthy notes.

• I am using a 24hr timestamp
• You can check-in and checkout at any time,
• Because I am in development mode. I made it such that you can check-in again in the next 5 seconds after the previous checkin (Ideally this should be set to 24hrs. depending on the how the work place is run. It could be a day job, or a job with morning and night shifts. the code can suit any purpose with a bit of modification)
• If an employee does not checkout for a certain day . the number of work hours is not computed for that day and it will not be added to the total number of work hours of that employee.

Some stuff that I will add later

• Ability for the employees to search for their names
• Some administrative work route. for the manager
• Data visualizations using d3.js (bar, charts, heat maps, nodes) etc. d3.js remains the best in-browser data visualization library.

Requirements

• Node.js
• Mongo (You can follow this guide to get mongo with docker https://gist.github.com/jrichardsz/3f5ab6cffb2a4393fda331315469ad83)

Getting started

• start a mongo database process

• expose environment variables

export DATABASE=localhost
export port=9000
export SECRET=1e1df736

• install libraries

npm install

• start in dev mode

npm run dev

• You must see this log:

Server is up and running
Connection to database was succesful

Other logs could be indicate an error.

Home Page

Point your browser at http://localhost:9000 and you will be see something like: