Locally KCalm

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Inspiration

We wanted to contribute locally to businesses all over Chicago and make these businesses easier to find.

What it does

Our website is going to gather the location of all the businesses in Chicago and put it into a website. The front end of the website will have the button options: like, bookmark and map. The like button will like the location of the business, the bookmark will save the location and store it so the user can access it later, and the map button will open up maps to see where the location is. There will also be a search button to help search for businesses. In the middle of the page, there will be a section where a picture can be uploaded by the business owner.

How we built it

We used javascript for the backend of the website and used HTML & CSS for the front end of the website.

Challenges we ran into

For the back end of the website, we ran into issues with extracting the data of all businesses in Chicago. It was a bit difficult since we first started in C++ and tried multiple ways, such as using vectors and classes and stringstream parsing. We had problems with separating the CSV file through commas alone since there was more than one in some lines. After going through trial and error, we then switched to javascript and created a json file which helped create a better database with all the businesses in Chicago. We also had trouble linking the json file to the HTML pages we created for our website.

For the front end of the website, there was issues with formatting the page correctly and making sure it moves dynamically with the page itself. There was also issues with creating the buttons correctly and figuring out the logo and color schemes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

For majority of us it challenging to code in javascript since we were returning back and also creating json files. Figuring out the next button was pretty challenging too.

What we learned

We learned how to code a bit in javascript, specifically learning how to create json files and how to link it to our HTML files in GitHub.

What's next for Locally Kcalm

Implanting a map and a better filtering system. Also we're going to Gathers to get boba :)

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript