Sports Guide

Users Stories
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Approach

Our application is a beginner's sports guide.
We implemented Bootstrap and Jade in our front-end, and we implemented Node, Express, and Mongoose in our back-end. As of this moment, soccer is the only featured sport.

Technologies Used

• Express: to build app
• Node.js: to build app
• Heroku: to deploy app
• Bcrypt: to authenticate user
• Body-parser: to parse data
• Bootstrap: to manage front-end (HTML, CSS, and Javascript)
• Express: to build app
• Express-jwt: to build token feature
• fs: to build app
• Jade: to create templates
• Jsonwebtoken: to build token feature
• jQuery: to manipulate front-end
• Mongojs: to link News/Twitter feature and database
• Mongoose: to build database
• Morgan: to log requests
• Nodemailer: to build Contact Us feature
• Path: to build paths
• Postman: to test app functionality on server-side
• Request: to build app
• Require: to build app
• Twitter: to access Twitter API data

Installation Instructions

• [https://sportsguide.herokuapp.com/]

Major Hurdles

• Finding well-organized public sports data
• Implementation of tokens: solved by using Postman to test user routes
• Accessing and rendering soccer API data: solved by reading documentation on JSON parsing
• Accessing and rendering Twitter API data: solved by using Mongojs to create collection in database and seed it with tweets pulled from Twitter API

Unsolved Problems/Features

• Comments/articles feature
• Chatting feature
• Access to additional sports

Sports Guide Dev Team:
bdep90
swryu0906
nasir789