Brews Near You

Brief Description

A directory in which you can search for beers and breweries. You also will be able to save your favorite breweries and beers.

Live Site

https://brews-near-you.herokuapp.com/

Repository

https://github.com/Toadilicious/Beer-directory

Technologies Used

• express
• express-http-proxy
• AngularJS
• SASS
• CSS3
• HTML
• NPM
• Mongoose
• Node.Js
• Google maps
• Third Party API

External Sources

• Animations are from animate.css - http://daneden.me/animate
• Brewery and beer data is from brewerydb - http://www.brewerydb.com
• Google Maps data was provided by Google Maps - http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js

Technical Challenges

• Using a proxy to fix the CORS error when using a 3rd api.
• Reading through the API's developer page to understand what data can be received from which URLs
• Using Session cookie with AngularJS

Unsolved Problems

• The Style doesn't work well in Firefox with the maps
• the site is not currently responsive

Expected Updates

• We are going to make it responsive to mobile
• Having the tab that you have selected in the nav stay highlighted if selected.
• Add a little design to the login/register page
• Add some more CSS animations (see beers, beer page, etc.)
• Add the ability to search for breweries by city or state.
• Add BJCP scoresheets to beer detail page.
• Make comments available to all users

Question and answer time

1. What went well for your group?
   • T. We were able to split the work fairly evenly.
   • M. Each of us took a technology we weren't familiar with and we came up to speed quickly.
   • A. The communication between us
2. What was your groups biggest struggle?
   • T. Getting everybody to a point where we could all merge at the same time.
   • M. Getting merges to happen conflict free.
   • A. Page's elements show/hide control on each event. Git commit, merge and pull.
3. What was the most useful tool that your group relied on the most
   • T. Console Logs
   • M. The browser debugger
   • A. Browser debugger/inspect
4. What was the most surprising aspect of working in a group/a thing (or things) you didn’t anticipate?
   • T. I was amazed at how it all seemed to be jumbled up until the last few days when the pieces of the puzzle just started to combine.
   • M.
   • A. We are all don't drink but we built an app that queries most of available beer in US. And this time, i can spell Budweiser correctly:)