Grubby

Inspiration

A lot of adolescents refuse to eat or dine out alone in fear of being judged for their lack of company. As students go to the dining commons, a lot of times it hurts to see a group of friends in another table while some do not have that kind of privilege. We hoped to combat that issue.

What it does

Our app helps combat loneliness- if you are planning to dine out, our website informs you of other people who are planning to eat at the same location as well. This allows you to match with people of similar interests and potentially find a new friend, all while bonding over food## How we built it We used React for our client side and Node JS and MySQL for our server side as we successfully employed Google Maps API along with HTML and CSS to create a full stack web application.

Challenges we ran into

Sending data from front-end to back-end proved to be a significant hurdle we had to overcome.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We successfully integrated Google Maps API with REST architecture to create a connection between front-end and our back-end served by a MySQL database.

What we learned

For this project, we particularly strengthened our expertise with JavaScript as we used React and Node JS. We particularly employed Axios POST and GET requests that streamlined the entire full stack experience.