Yocal
Check out the live app.
Yocal is a single-page web clone application inspired by Yelp to help you find restaurants near you. Yocal is built using Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL on the back-end, and React.js, Redux on the front-end.
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Key Features
User Authentication
- Users can create an account and sign-in and sign-out with secure authentication.
- Users can log in through a demo account.
- Users can't post reviews and rate on the restaurant without logging in.
Searching
Front-end searching for auto-complete function & Backend Searching for actual searching function
- In most pages except for login and review pages, users can search for businesses.
- Users are able to see auto-complete search keywords based on names and categories of businesses.
- By fetching the array of all categories and business names instead of fetching the entire business/category objects, users don't experience any slow down on typing search keywords.
- Users can see the list of businesses in Google Map with markers of the businesses.
Writing Reviews
A logged-in user is able to write his or her reviews. A logged-in user is able to upload photos with his or her review and delete any review he or she wrote. A logged-in user can see all reviews that he or she has written.
Technology Stack
Yocal is a single-page web application with technology stacks as follows:
Back-end
Ruby on Rails Yocal uses Ruby on Rails - active record - to query the database on the back-end.
Database
Yocal uses a PostgreSQL database to store its relational data and AWS S3 to store the photos with active record storage.
Front-end
React & Redux
Yocal uses React on the frontend to efficiently render to the virtual DOM. Also Redux manages the state connected to the Rails backend.
Future Plans
- Enable users to be friends with each other and interact by messaging or checking their reviews.
- Make users upload multiple photos at once on the restaurants (currently, users can upload a photo only by uploading a review).
- Additional filters for searching.