Process

Our team started the project by understanding the user's needs, app features, and technology. In order to best understand our target audience, we created user personas and user stories. This enabled us to start visualizing what components will be present in our final product. The hardest challenge we faced was identifying the right technology for our app. This was a college project and each team member brought something special to the table, which meant when it came to picking our technology everybody had to dedicate some time to learn the frameworks. We ultimately decided to create a node.js app with MongoDB for our database, we created our own API for businesses because we found most of them to be lacking in data. Since there were 5 members in our team, each individual was responsible for populating 5-10 restaurants and shops in our excel file for our API, which was then converted to a CSV file and imported into MongoDB. Additionally, we made sure to document all of our findings and work in an agile manner for an efficient workflow which contributed to the success of our project.

My team comprised of 1 front-end developer, 1 full-stack developer, 1 back-end developer (me), and 2 people for documentation. I was responsible for setting up each page, linking up MongoDB to our project, defining core API functions, implementing the search functionality, and a portion of the maps.