Inspiration
trying to find experiences off the beaten path while travelling, and sharing stories about the hometowns we know best
What it does
- article posting functionality for cities, with tags + images
- search functionality for cities and all posts associated with them
- created a responsive, self-styled front-end with minimal use of visual react libraries
How we built it
- MERN: react + express + mongodb + node
- learned how to launch server, parse requests, structures in a database for backend
- learned & implemented react integration with express + mongoDB
Challenges we ran into
- learning how to integrate react with express
- dealing with js's asynchronysity
- finding the right database structures for our data
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- creating our first full-stack project
- learning react and express.js
What's next for aroma
- favorite certain posts
- anonymous sorting system based on favorites
- tag filter functionality
- customizable, user-styled city pages (ala subreddits)
- extensive search functionality
- secure user system
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