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EatMeet

• A Javascript based application that allows users to search for restaurants around them and nominate their choice of restaurant for a vote among their group of friends to decide where they would be dining. To use the app, You must register first at https://foursquare.com/developers/ to recieve your own Foursquare client ID and client secret. This service is free. Once you have registered, click the gear icon near the seach-bar and paste your Foursquare client ID and client secret.

• The application solves the issue of indecisiveness, when it comes to group dining, by allowing users to communicate their prefernces via the application and also providing a voting tool for them to reach a consensus. The app also pin points all the nominated restaurants on a map so users can see where each nomination is located. Therefore, eliminating the need for the often undersirable back and forth communication between a group when trying to decide where to dine.

• Skills employed in this project:

  • HTML
  • Bootstrap
  • CSS
  • Modals
  • Javascript
  • AJAX
  • Firebase
  • API manipulation

• The working application has the follwoing features:

  • Search capability using FourSquare API
  • Tracking total numer of users who are interacting with the application data base in real time using Firebase
  • Real time nominations using Firebase
  • Live voting using Fire Base
  • Pinning all nominations to a map for users to see where they are located using Google Maps API

• Future Development Ideas:

  • Bill split calculator
  • Zelle/Venmo based payment feature to split the tab
  • Tip calculator
  • Map capability that generates distance to the restaurant and map out the route
  • Contributors to the Eat Meet project:
    • Angela Andrews
    • Andrew Wilk
    • Rob Roy
    • Hassaan Mustafa