API research.

[emswann]

Research Yelp and Leaflet APIs to prepare for coding.

[robertbernardbrown]

Yelp API does not support CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) so we are unable to access the API directly without using a backend technology
Yelp/yelp-fusion#64

Elaina found the Google Places API which is also unsupported for CORS but at least has a JS library we can hit
Sample code below:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/place-search

[emswann]

After research we will use the following Google JavaScript libraries:

Google Places: Restaurants in the area based on user location and selected radius.
Google Geocode: To get geocodes based on user address input if geolocation cannot be determined.
Google Geolocation: Initially determines user current address.

Hannah said this can satisfy our API requirements for project. If we can add a couple of Ajax calls that would be great.

Possibility to get restaurant information:

Yelp API getting around CORS issue with cors-anywhere. Use this for restaurant modal information or at least picture of restaurant.