robertshaw87 / restaurant-tracker

Create a list of restaurants you wish to visit, and then, after you've visited them, you can decide whether you liked or disliked them!

Restaurant-Tracker

Restaurant Tracker

Create a list of restaurants you wish to visit, and then, after you've visited them, you can decide whether you liked or disliked them!

Getting Started

Open up the project link and you should be able to see the webpage shown below:

You can add new restaurants in the input field in the header. If you've visited one of the restaurants you can give it a thumbs up if you liked it or a thumbs down if you didn't. Once you've visited a restaurant, you can choose to remove it from the tracker if you're no longer interested in it.

Check out those restaurants you've always wanted to go to!

Prerequisites

You need to have a modern browser able to handle html5, javascript, and css.

Installing

No installation needed! Just open the page in your preferred browser.

Built With

• Html

• CSS

• Javascript - The scripting language used

• BootstrapCDN v4.1.0 - The web framework used

• jQuery v3.3.1 - Java library for DOM and CSS manipulation

• Google Fonts - Font repository

• Node.js - JavaScript runtime

• Node Package Manager - Package manager for JavaScript and Node

• Express - Server-side framework

• Body Parser - Request parsing middleware

• Handlebars - Semantic templates for HTML generation

• mySQL - Make server-side SQL queries

Challenges

I dove into Handlebars and the MVC model with this project. Handlebars is very convenient for just serving up pages without having to write a lot of javascript or repeating html.

I explored handlebar's built in conditionals and iterators in order to minimize repeated code. Partials have been incredibly useful for creating dynamic content relatively painlessly.

I took a baby step towards using the MVC model last project, but I fully utilized the model this time. This was a great experience that will prepare me for working with larger projects.

Authors

• Robert Shaw - Initial work - robertshaw87