TravelBuddy

TravelBuddy is an app which acts as a personal assistant for someone going on a trip. It gives the current weather at the destination and allows the user to search maps for activities, restaurants, what-have-you, saving the locations in lists for each trip.

Deployed

Hosting URL: https://travelbuddy-8ad21.firebaseapp.com/

Built With

APIs:

• Google Maps JavaScript API
• Google Maps Geocoding API
• Google Places API Web Service
• OpenWeatherMaps API

Libraries:

• jQuery
• Firebase
• Gijgo library
• Axios

Other:

• Bootstrap
• Google Fonts
• Font Awesome

Completed Features

• Google authentication
• Use Google Geocoding to get location data from user input
• Use location data to display a Google map
• Use local storage to pass data from welcome page to main page
• Use Google Places to perform a nearbySearch using selected category
• Place markers on map for places returned by nearbySearch
• Use animation when placing markers
• Display infowindow when place marker is clicked
• 'Add' button on infowindow adds that place to selected category list
• 'Add' button saves an activity object
• Weather for destination location
• Full CRUD functionality in Firebase
• Retrieval of saved trips for returning user

Next Steps

Features that we would like to add at some point in the future.

• Use Geolocation to place user's current location on map
• Generate directions from user's current location to chosen activity
• Dynamically built categories sidebar
• Allow user to add own categories
• Add other federated sign-in methods
• Firebase rules to restrict access to user's own trips
• Delete stale session user nodes

Authors (a.k.a Team A/C)

• Christopher Biessener
• Craig Christensen
• Cristina Zhang
• Chris York

Copyright

All code (c) Team A/C