Inspiration
Online marketplaces are sketchy. Buying products from complete strangers is a bit stressful, so this site aims to fix that.
What it does
College Exchange Market is an online marketplace for university students to buy and sell things, with the peace of mind of knowing that they are interacting with other students at their university.
How we built it
This project was built using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node). We used MongoDB Atlas and Postman for testing of our queries.
Challenges we ran into
We had to learn about React, since we didn't have a ton of experience with it prior to the project. Additionally, we faced issues with Git that took up time at the beginning of the project.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to grind out the entire front end and get it looking very good. We also had to figure out the communication between the database and the react frontend, and getting them working with each other via HTTP requests.
What we learned
Communication, MERN Stack, Development Cycle, Teamwork
What's next for College Exchange Market
Expansion into other universities, implementation of 2FA systems via Auth0, more robust Mongo queries
Built With
- express.js
- google-cloud-mongodb
- mongodb
- node.js
- postman
- react
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