Inspiration
Information about what food the dining hall serves always seems to be a challenge, sometimes you go back to your dorm and your roommate tells you there was spam fried rice on the other side of the campus and you beat yourself up for missing it - nevermore with the introduction of SlugBites
What it does
SlugBites is an interactive webapp with PWA technology and a functioning python backend that allows you to easily browse current and future meals for UCSC students.
How we built it
We used Django, a python framework that allowed us to write a web server to pull and output html data, alongside with some javascript and shell script that integrates the entire development process.
Challenges we ran into
None of us were familiar with html and css formatting, and it took us a surprising amount of time to connect an html file to a css styler. Having to write an api parser also doesn't help with the necessity of building a web server. All of this was especially challenging as none of us had any experience with Django.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
In the span of a day and a half we built a functioning web server that is currently hosted alongside frontend styling featuring some original art.
What we learned
Python good, we praise python and everything it comes with.
What's next for slugbites
We plan to finish our filtering systems that already has the front end finished but yet to have the backend requests and sorting done. We also plan to develop this into a native app.
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