CommunityConnect

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Inspiration 💡

The team was inspired to create CommunityConnect after seeing a need in one of their own communities for a centralised location for events happening in their local community. We saw this as an opportunity to foster relationship-building by providing an easy way for people to get involved locally.

What it does 🤔

CommunityConnect allows users to view events happening in their area, as well as add events that they're hosting. The ability for individuals to add their own events makes CommunityConnect the best way to see all events happening locally, whether it's hosted by an individual, an organisation or the local government.

How we built it 🎨

React.JS
Redux Toolkit
React-Bootstrap
Bootstrap
MaterialUI
Big Calendar
Moment.JS
Node.JS
Express.JS
MongoDB
Passport,
OAuth
Google Maps JavaScript API
Google Places API
Google Geocoding API

Challenges we ran into 😤

Our team members learned new libraries and worked with new technologies. We familiarised ourselves with aspects of full stack development that we previously had no experience with. We also collaborated from four different time zones, which was challenging to find a time to work together.

Accomplishments that we're proud of ✨

We're very proud of learning to work with React Redux and MongoDB, as well as figuring out how to use react-big-calendar to work well for our purposes.

What we learned 🙌

The team learned how to work with new libraries in React and APIs such as Google Maps API, Places API and the Geocoding API as well as working with MongoDB for not only authentication but storage as well.