Map My Business

Overview

Inspiration

All developers have their favorite part when writing code. For us, it always has been git commits. From entertaining commit messages to ... , there is always something fun about git commits. In this project, we wanted to show that we can withdraw way more information from git commits than we initially think.

What it does

Our project involves using the google maps API to show the amount of commits on your companies teams repository around the world. The more red the spot is the more git commits have been done in that specified area.

How we built it

Our project was successful because of the different tools we used to build it. This includes Google Cloud which provided us with the Google Maps API and Google Geocode API. We then included the JavaScript map that google provided in a React project. We fetched the commit information from Github in order to display our heatmap. We also retrieved company announcements made on discord through the discord API and bots.

Challenges we ran into

All of our team worked on different parts of our innovative project to complete it faster. We ran into quite a few problems. For instance, when we merged our code together we ran into a lot of bugs that were causing the website not to work properly and we had to fix it all together. This was also our first time using the google maps and discord API, hence until we were able to get them to work properly it to we ran into a lot of issues. Thus, this was a great learning experience for us

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are really proud that in the end we were able to build a fully functioning innovative website all while learning how to use new technologies.

What we learned

We solidified our knowledge using react.js and we also learned a lot about API's such as the google maps, google geocoding, github and discord API since we used them in our project

What's next for Untitled

After this experience we feel like we are ready more than ever to create innovative projects in a more efficient matter after being able to overcome our problems as a team.