• 

  Our home page for Chow Checker where you can search for schools!

• 

  A listing of dining halls at UCLA that users can comment on and rate.

Chow Checker

How to Use

Currently, our website only supports searching for the following colleges: UCLA, USC, UCI, UCR, PLNU, MIT. Click on "Leave a Comment" to leave a comment about a dining hall!

Inspiration

We wanted to make a more convenient way to check whether the food that a dining hall was serving was good.

What it does

Our site allows students to post comments and ratings for each of their school's dining halls so that others can compare them.

How we built it

We used React for the frontend user interface and Firebase for the backend database and API.

Challenges we ran into

Firebase was new to all of us, so we had to learn how to set up and structure the database, then figure out how to deploy the API to send JSON data to the webpage. It took us a long time, but we made it!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a working API and implemented a backend database with Firebase. We also created a platform that allows for user input and updates the database and webpage in real time.

What we learned

We learned how to use Postman to send requests to the API

What's next for Chow Checker

We are hoping to add many more universities to Chow Checker so that we can allow as many college students as possible to use this website to help them make informed decisions on which dining halls to go to for good food. Additionally, we would want to implement potential ratings for individual foods, rather than just an overall rating of a specific restaurant. Furthermore, we were planning on clearing data everyday so that ratings would be accurate for each day so that people would know when a specific restaurant had good food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner of everyday.

Built With

• css
• firebase
• fontawesome
• jsx
• react