Inspiration
Some of my friends are from abroad but visiting them is a bit of a financial chore.
What it does
It finds the cheapest flights on skyscanner for each of us, and finds the fairest flights for both parties from where each party is currently staying in.
How we built it
We used Skyscanner's API in order to scrape all the flights from a given location at any given time; and then we did some relatively nasty maths in order to find airports that can be flown to given some API responses. From there we used even more fluff to filter the data (we're trying not to flood Skyscanner) to only show really cheap and chronologically relevant flights. The results are mapped on a map.
Challenges we ran into
- Processing large JSON is a chore.
- Processing asyncronous responses with large JSON is a chore.
- We started using react but setting that up is a chore.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- It worked (in pieces)
What we learned
- Handling big data
- Making things look nice
- React takes 23 hours to set up
- Memoisation is your babes
What's next for longtimenosee.me
- it'll scale for n amount of people but aint nobody got time to perfect that (in 24 hours)
Built With
- express.js
- hash-tables
- jquery
- node.js
- rest
- skyscanner
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