College Ride Share

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  Teamwork makes the dream work!

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  Initial start page with log in and register functions

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  Register user page

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  User homepage

Inspiration

We started with a goal to attack problems facing college students, teamwork and friendship ended with success. One of our team members brought us the issue of trying to communicate with fellow students about carpooling to places and going home. They currently used Facebook groups to do so, but our web aims to make it easier for students to complete this.

What it does

Connects students with other students to share car rides around their universities / areas.

How we built it

We used Express to set up a back-end rest-api for creating user accounts, and we collected information such as email, school, and basic information. This communicated with an Angular front-end combined with Bootstrap to display the information using re-usable nodules. The information was passed from Express to a MongoDB database using User records. NodeJS provided the needed dependencies and packages for our front and backend.

Challenges we ran into

Completing the project within the 24 hour time limit, as well as correctly passing the data from the back-end to the front end.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We implemented a user account system that saves to a MongoDB backend.

What we learned

Teamwork is key, and time management is a must.

What's next for College Ride Share

We will continue our web application and make a mobile version for iOS and Android. After that we hope to deploy it to college campuses.

To access the site please copy and paste this into your browser: 149.125.227.196:8000. For any further information, contact Nick at nicholas.jativa@stonybrook.edu.

Built With

• angular.js
• apis
• express.js
• hosts
• languages
• libraries
• mongodb
• mongoose
• node.js
• ui-kits