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Project Debrief: The Gym Wall of Shame

A Little Background 

It started as a quirky idea during one of my more reflective moments post-pizza (yes, not post-gym!). What if I had a fun way to keep track of my actual gym visits versus those I just claimed to have attended? Thus was born the "Gym Wall of Shame" — a project where I combine a bit of coding with some of my gym data. The whole idea is to have a public page where everyone(literally everyone) can keep track of how many gym sessions they actually had! 

The whole idea: It's an attempt to make myself really go to the gym by publicly sharing all of the data!



The Setup 

The backbone of this project is FastAPI and Svelte — one handling my backend bravado and the other serving the frontend. 

FastAPI - The Backend Buddy 

In the land of the backend, I set up FastAPI to do the heavy lifting. It’s got two main parts: 
  • app.py: This is where all the magic happens. It decides what data gets shown and keeps everything moving smoothly. 
  • scraper.py: My little spy in the realm of gym data. It keeps tabs on my gym check-ins so I can't just say "I was at the gym" when I was really out getting more pizza. 

Getting this part up was simple: 

Create a virtual environment to keep things neat:  
    
    python3 -m venv env 
    source env/bin/activate 

Install the dependencies to get all the tools I’d need:

    pip install -r requirements.txt 

Svelte - The Frontend Flair 

Then there’s Svelte in the frontend, making sure everything looks good for public viewing (and shaming). To make the app live and kicking, I used npm commands to wake up Svelte: 

Fire up the server for development:

    npm run dev 

Build and run for production when it’s showtime:

    npm run build 
    npm run start 

Challenges Along the Way 

Not all was smooth. Setting up a systemd service for the FastAPI app gave me a bit of a headache — turns out uvicorn wasn’t where I thought it was! A quick fix later, aligning paths, and the service was up. Wrap-Up And that’s the scoop on my Gym Wall of Shame project! It's not just a tracker; it's a reminder to hit the gym for real (and maybe cut down on the pizza). 

If you're curious, feel free to drop by the site at gym.amir.rocks or check out the GitHub repo! So, what’s your next silly side project?













Location: Frankfurt, Germany

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