Local Business Web App

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Inspiration

To support communities and connect people with small businesses in their area.

What it does

This app either grabs a geolocation from the user's browser or waits for user location input. It queries a weather API to determine which businesses and activities to display, and queries a local business API to display results. Users can then filter results dependant on their interests.

How we built it

We built the front-end using Bootstrap and custom CSS. The back-end was built in ExpressJS with third-party APIs.

Challenges we ran into

Finding free APIs that would provide us the information we needed, such as local business listings. Implementing a feature for the browser to grab the user's GPS coordinates. Delegating tasks and work-flow plans.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Collaborating in a team environment under a time crunch and having the shell of an app that we can complete at a later date. We had an amazing team effort!

What we learned

In the future, we would like to focus on a work-flow plan and clear delegation of tasks. Phil and Salina also learned a new back-end framework.

What's next for Local Business Web App

Integrate the front-end and back-end and plan out new features.

Built With

Submitted to

nwHacks 2021

Created by

I worked on the front-end with Jyoti, using Bootstrap and custom CSS to build a sleek UI. I hope that I can learn how to integrate our UI with the back-end in the weeks following our first hackathon!

Emily Mackay
A 2nd-year student studying for my Associate's Degree in Computer Science.
I worked on the back end. It was my first time using node and external API calls. I learned a lot!

Phil Fiess
I worked on front end with Emily and we had a good time collaborating and it was my first time learning about APIs and overall I had a great collaboration !

Jyoti Bisht
I worked on the back-end. Though I have been working on Django and PHP, this was my first time working on Node. It was a new experience and I undeniably learnt a lot about everything, especially JavaScript.

Salina Koirala