A gun violence tracking app that connects users to government officials that can do something about it.
Gun Violence Archive
Google Civic Information API
Google Maps Javascript API
Have you or anyone you’ve loved ever been affected by gun violence? Do you want to do something about it? Well, you CAN with GunSense.
GunSense delivers up-to-date information about the gun violence happening in our communities and provides a platform for you to connect to the government officials who can affect the changes that you want to see.
By providing quality information on an actionable platform GunSense allows for an aware and informed citizenry to engage with and empower leaders with their ideas and concerns. Which, in time, will lead to better laws, better law enforcement, less gun violence, and a safer healthier society for all.
*This application was started as an entry for DeveloperWeek 2023 Hackathon. Presentation video here
I have continued working on the application afterwards as follows:
- created project on Firebase
- set up authentication and created Firestore DB for users
- created utility functions to sign up, sign in, and sign out users and connected them to relevant components
- created request to fetch user's gov't representatives from Google Civic Information API
- reshaped response data and displayed in list of representative cards
- set up hosting on Firebase with custom domain https://gunsense.danielburns.info/
- finish connecting Representative contact links to respective buttons
- find a way to scrape data from GVA - last 72 hours
- connect to google maps API
- connect DraftJS to letters section
- add letters DB to Firebase and connect API endpoints
- consider mailto options
- add info from resouces such as https://www.senate.gov/general/contacting.htm and https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
- first merge your feature branch to main on github and resolve any conflicts
- then merge main branch to 'live' branch. Project will be deployed automatically (hopefully).
