A travel planning app where users add popular itinerary trip items from other users & Google searches to their planning board

App Features

1.   Explore other users' trips & itinerary for a certain country
2.   Save interesting itinerary activites, foods or sites to user's own list
3.   Saved items can be added to a simple Pinterest-like board
4.   Trip items can come from Google Search or from other users' trips
5.   View all trips that are being planned

Technologies Used

• Frontend: React, Material-UI, JSS, HTML/CSS
• Backend: PostgresQL, Express, Sequelize
• Version Control: Git
• Other Libraries: react-beautiful-dnd, react-google-maps, react-vector-maps, axios, styled-components

Challenges

• As this was a pair-project, alot of planning had be to clear from the onset. Initially faced coming to a concensus of what user stories the app was addressing, it was smooth-smailing once this was confirmed
• When creating the base user flow, we had to hard-code the user ID and trip ID, it was tedious going back to address this after MVP completed
• Places API had limitations distinguishing between sites & activties

What I'd Do Differently

• Address hardcoded user ID and trip ID sooner and focus on creating a login page to "force" these issues to arise
• Would have ensured a base userflow first before doing up all the features and styling
• Be thorough about the components needed for each page