trashwith.us

Do you have items lying around the house that you want get rid of but have no idea how to? Well, trashwith.us provides you with the most sustainable ways to get rid of your unwanted items!

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✨ What it does

  • trashwith.us is a website that gives you suggestions on how to get rid of your unwanted items responsibly and sustainably
  • Search: find out how to get rid of items that are cluttering your home
  • Sustainable suggestions: the website suggests several ways for you to get rid of your items sustainably
  • Save the world: there are many things that do not belong in the landfill

🛠 How we built it

Frontend

  • Figma
  • React.js

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • MySQL

Hosting

  • Heroku
  • ClearDB

🎯 Challenges we ran into

  • This is our first time creating creating a full-stack application with this stack so that came with a few challenges, especially in connecting react.js front-end to node.js back-end
  • we were also a little new to managing branches on git
  • Hosting: we had a hard time finding good hosting websites to host our mySQL database

💪 Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • As novice hackers, we are proud to have created a functioning full-stack app within 48 hours.
  • We used git for version control in our development lifecycle

📖 What we learned

  • GET and POST requests
  • Creating a database with MySQL
  • Hosting a full-stack app on Heroku
  • Teamwork makes the dream work 🌈

⛳️ What's next for trashwith.us

  • Allow users to vote on suggestions
  • Fill the website with data and provide links to outside sources
  • Create an 'admin' panel so that developers can add items more easily
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