When2Eat

// connecting indecisive friend groups

How Does Food Solve Anything?

We embarked on this project with a vision to cultivate kindness in daily life. Through our app, we empower users with daily prompts and challenges to spread kindness, fostering a global community of empathy and compassion. By leveraging location tracking technology, users can visualize the ripple effect of their actions, contributing to a more interconnected and caring world. Throughout this project, I honed my skills in:

MERN Tech Stack

Websocket Live Updates

Yelp API Integration

Azure Deployment Environments

New and Useful

To continue developing my full stack engineering skills, I worked with my team to create something that would be useful and significant to University of Washington students. With the Ave right next to campus, there are so many restaurants to choose from that deciding where to eat is always challenge. When2Eat aims to simplify this decision-making process by providing functionalities such as a lobby system for creating/joining lobbies with friends, adding restaurants in real time with websockets, a voting system to increase the chances of preferred restaurants being chosen, spinning a wheel to select a restaurant to eat at, Azure authentication for secure user management, and an explore feature to find nearby restaurants powered by the Yelp API. This project had many moving parts and a lot more features than most projects I've worked on, teaching me a lot about

Timeline

① Something Silly

Our journey started out with the excitement of making bets and playing the odds. What began as a fun interaction among friends to decide where to eat turned into the inspiration for When2Eat.

② Design & Architecture

Creating When2Eat involved meticulous planning and designing. We carefully planned out our data flow, software architecture, user stories, API endpoints, and more. On top of that, providing a pleasant UI experience was at the top of our priorities.

③ The Grind

Although we faced many blockers and at times, lack of motivation, there were many new features that we were excited to implement. We were hard at work implementing lobbies, friends, explore, and much more!

④ Overcoming

Despite the technical hurdles and design revisions, we persevered. Whether it was trouble implementing the Yelp API, websockets not working, or Azure deployment issues, each challenge was an opportunity to innovate and improve.

Strong Under Pressure

This project stands out among the rest as it my most ambitious endeavor yet! Learning the full stack development process was invaluable. From the MongoDB implementation to express API development to practicing more React, it was all critical to fleshing out our features and our vision. Through all the highs and lows, lazy days and late nights, this process and journey has been especially rewarding! Throughout our development we hosted our website at https://when2eat.quangissocool.me/.

Here's the Github Repo

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