Projects

Aim

Create an app that searches for meal and cocktail recipes based on what ingredients the user has

Method

• Make get requests in a Java backend to the MealDB and CocktailDB APIs with the user's ingredients in the request parameters
• Implement caching to improve the site's performance
• Use Semantic UI to create a clean, intuitive user interface
• Display a no results message with the user's search terms if there are no recipes in the database containing their ingredients

• React
• Semantic UI
• Spring

Lessons

• Using a library to style pages
• Using a linked hashmap to implement a LRU cache
• Formatting user input with JavaScript string and array methods
• Removing empty strings and null values when displaying recipe data
• Preventing a no results message from being changed or displayed until after data has loaded
• Creating smaller subsets of a larger dataset for pagination

Aim

Create an app that displays information on a niche topic in an engaging way

Method

• Fetch data from the eBird API
• Filter bird sightings for owls
• Present key stats and facts on the sightings
• Plot the sightings on a Leaflet map

• React
• Leaflet

Lessons

• Increased confidence in working with APIs
• Got to grips with including an API key in a request header

Aim

Create an app that provides people with inspiration for activities that they can do if they’re self-isolating because of COVID-19

Method

• Make get requests to the Bored API to generate random solo activities that people could do if they’re self-isolating
• Allow the user to filter by activity type
• Generate a URL using that activity type as a parameter

• React

Lessons

• Adding parameters to API get requests based on user input

Aim

Create a full stack app that allows a gym to manage fitness class bookings

Method

• Create an SQL database with classes, class types, members and bookings
• Apply business logic
• Include search functionality, error handling and capacity management

• Postgresql
• Flask
• Jinja2

Lessons

• Created a relational database with a one to many and many to many relationship
• Routing and page rendering through Flask
• Date and time formatting

Aim

Create a full stack app that provides local residents, tourists, art students and tourism professionals with information on murals in Glasgow and promote a positive image of the city

Method

• Create a database of murals based on the Glasgow mural trail website
• Display murals in a list and map views
• Allow users to filter results by metadata
• Update results on the fly
• Provide favouriting functionality

• React
• Leaflet
• Express.js
• MongoDB

Lessons

• Working as a team
• Advanced Git & Git troubleshooting