A plant tracking app meant to make it easy to track your plants' growth and lineages.

• backend is the FastAPI backend (Python)
• plant-app is the React frontend (Typescript)

• Python 3.11+
• Node v20.10.0

• aws CLI
• aws credentials set up (use a profile)

The AWS infrastructure is an artisinal, hand-crafted set of services made through the AWS console. It would greatly benefit from some sort of IaC approach to reproducibility.

• AWS Amplify for front-end builds and deployment
• AWS Lambda function hosts and runs FastAPI through Mangum handler
• API Gateway in "proxy" mode triggers lambda function
• DynamoDB NoSQL DB for basic single-table DB
  • Created global secondary index 'SK-PK-index' to allow querying by plant_id directly
• S3 for image hosting
• IAM for role and permissions management for each of the above services
• Cloudwatch for logging outputs

• Oauth authentication tokens

Start FastAPI backend and react frontend using scripts in /scratch/scripts.sh

On pushes to master:

• AWS Amplify pointed at this GitHub repository does automated builds and deployment

• Github actions package and deploy FastAPI backend to lambda

In rough order of decreasing priority:

• Improving plant view
  • Filter by "current" or not (e.g. has the plant died or been given away)
• personal data export:
  • ability for users to export their plant data so they can analyze it or migrate it
• timelapse views
  • creating timelapse view of plant growth from photos
  • would be made easier by having a photo "ghost" overlay to previous photo when adding a new image
• plant event tracker
  • watering, fertilizing, repotting
• extracted features from images
  • machine vision to extract height, number of leaves, number of branches
  • species identification
• care recommendations (keyed to species)
• allow automated recognition of plant ID (increasing order of difficulty):
  • OCR of numbers written on tags
  • small QR codes
  • matching to previous photos of plant (way too hard)