API Development and Implementation of Booking Study Rooms

The sheer amount of tabs on this app and the timing truly encapsulate the perfect chaos of our experience at this HackIllinois

Inspiration

Have you ever been to Grainger, and realized that all the individual study rooms are booked? Then, you try to go on the website to book a study room, but realize just how inconvenient and nit-picky that can be? Logging into the account each time you just want to get a room? We've faced this exact same issue, and can assure you that you are NOT alone. Just for this, we've created an app that works on all platforms, IOS, Android, and Web as well.

What it does

This app would essentially take in user input from when they are attempting to book a study room, and at what time they would plan on do so. From there, they can check which rooms are open, so that they can book that room, or which rooms are already filled at the moment, or are already booked.

How we built it

We used node.js and express.js to create an API, then tested that API using Postman. Then, we moved onto creating an app with react-native, and used Expo so that we would be able to test and have our app be utilized on all platforms. Then, we tested all that on local servers using XMLHttp and updated our user settings and bookings from that.