Asteria: Asteroids approaching Earth today

Overview

This project shows a list of asteroids and other objects that are approaching Earth today 😱

Worry not though, most of them will miss our planet by dozens of millions of kilometers 😅

See live: https://asteria-gccgo.mongodbstitch.com/

Submission Category:

Choose Your Own Adventure

Link to Code

How it works

• Realm function fetchNEOFeed uses NASA API to fetch a list of approaching near-Earth objects, transforms them to a more appropriate form and upserts them to a MongoDB collection:
  

• Scheduled Realm trigger runs this function every hour:
  

• Filled collection is used to generate Realm GraphQL schema:
  

• Realm Hosting hosts minimalistic web page that fetches data from GraphQL server and renders it:
  

Hope you like it! And let's hope we shall never see this: