Hospital Patient Portal

How to use this project?

Please note that this documentation assumes that you have pip, mysql, npm setup and are using PyCharm as your IDE.

1. Clone/download the zip file and extract all into a folder.
2. Navigate to the root folder of the project.

Database Setup

1. Open your terminal and run mysql -u <username> and enter your password on the prompt.
2. Execute CREATE DATABASE hospital_tutorial_db
3. Execute CREATE TABLE hospital_tutorial_db.Patients (pid int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, lastname varchar(255) NOT NULL, firstname varchar(255), PRIMARY KEY (pid));
4. Please change the config in app.py in the root directory to your MySQL username and password to connect to the MySQL database.

Flask setup

1. Open a terminal in the root directory of the project.
2. Execute: python3 -m venv env or just open the project in PyCharm and it should automatically configure this.
3. pip install flask
4. pip install flask-cors
5. pip install flask-mysqldb
6. Run the project on the server. (Important) Server should be running on https://localhost:5000/

React setup

1. Go to the frontend directory from the root directory and open a terminal.
2. Execute: npm install to install all the libraries I have used.
3. Execute: npm start to start the server
4. You should see the client-side server running on https://localhost:3000

The project should be running. The transactions are handled by https://localhost:5000, while the client side server is handled by https://localhost:3000.
There are instructions on how to use the website on the home page. Enjoy!

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