digithed/food

Food + social media react app

fooD

FooD (pun on the word "foodie") is a restaurant + social media ReactJS, Express,and Google Firebase web applicaiton. I started building this at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to see what restuarants in Boston were still delivering food. As time went on I began to have fun with the idea of adding a social aspect to the app, and liked the idea of having a better recorded history of a fun night out.

Medium article part 1: Building a social media infused restaurant web app with React, Node.js, and Google Firebase. Part 1

How to build and run the app

Install yarn and node if you don't have them already with brew install yarn and brew install node.

Next, install nodemon with npm install nodemon.

To run the front-end React server run yarn start while in the root of the cloned directory. To run the Express server run nodemon server.js while in the /src directory. The server will listen on localhost port 3001.

Features

Search for restaurants by Location using Yelp's Fusion API

Search restaurants by map area

Reset the map and search based on your location

Check out your friend feed and look at new restaurants your friends have liked

Restaurants you like will be broadcasted to your friends as well as saved to your own viewable history. Go and find your favorite spots on the map again