Midpoint

Goal

Provide users an easy way to find the midpoint location for meeting up with friends, or find equidistant location for users to set location on Uber/Lyft to walk the same distance back home.

Background

When meeting up with friends without a destination in mind, users might have a hard time deciding where to meet that is the midpoint from their homes. In some people's experience, they have to manually zoom into Google Maps to estimate where they could meet. Or, if two people are leaving from the same area and want to save on Uber, they can carpool together to a location that is halfway between their homes so that their walk home equal (I have been in this situation before.) A user on Midpoint can enter 2+ locations, and choose within an appropriate radius (can be set by user) a set of the locations that they would like to meet at/be dropped off at.

Prototype

Here is the link for our application prototype.(https://invis.io/98W6PSOF7GS#/406659271_10Login)

UPDATE: Curl for Users API curl -H "X-API-Key: e161fca0" https://my.api.mockaroo.com/users.json & for Locations API curl -H "X-API-Key: e161fca0" https://my.api.mockaroo.com/calculations.json

Build and Test

Running Midpoint from the Commandline

After cloning the project in your local repository, navigate to the folder through command line.

If you are in the midpoint-app folder, do as below to run the server.

$ cd back-end

$ npm start

In another commandline window, navigate to the midpoint app folder again.

Then, do as below to run the front-end.

$ cd front-end

$ npm start

A message might display due to duplicate localhost address.

Type y to continue.

Testing Midpoint

To test Midpoint, navigate to Midpoint in the commandline

Once in the midpoint-app folder

Navigate to the back end $ cd back-end

Navigate to the test folder with $ cd test

Then run $ npm test test/test.js