Inspiration
In a world with 50 Starbucks Coffee shops in a 3 block radius, choosing one can be a tough choice. Inundated by a new age of consumption and choice we are sometimes overwhelmed with the choice before us, so we decided that it perhaps we should let someone else choose for us. We find, that it’s easy to filter through the things we don’t want, but when it comes to having choices of things we CAN have, we find the decision-process to be more difficult. We decided to approach this issue with a three-parameter random restaurant decision maker. We hope it helps alleviate the arduous decision-making process for indecisive people while also helping them try something new.
What it does
Using this website, you can select the price range for the restaurant results you would prefer, and filter out any food categories you know you don't want. Afterward, all you have to do is type in the city you're in, and a restaurant/diner/fast food place will be randomly generated for you so you don't have to decide on what to eat!
How we built it
We used the Yelp API to collect data for a vast variety of places to eat based on location. Then, with a server we built using Node.js, we got the website to receive input from the user in order to filter the randomized result according to what they prefer.
Challenges we ran into
We were all completely new to creating a project using completely JavaScript, so learning all of the syntax and frameworks and how they work were very time-consuming. The biggest difficulty we ran into was using get requests retrieve the data from the server-side to the client-side of the web application.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We're proud of getting our website up and running and being responsive to the user. It was also a cool accomplishment when we extracted the data that we wanted from the Yelp API to manipulate.
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