Buffalo Bites

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Food vendor inventory management
User Food Discovery
User added items to cart
User created order
User order history
Delivery Person view open orders in his location
Delivery Person select the order to deliver
Delivery person deliver the order
Order delivered

Inspiration

Food wastage is a significant problem in the US and in UB as well. A lot of food is left over from UB Dining centers and some struggling students could use a cheap meal at the end of the day. Redistributing that surplus could get food to those who need it and reduce food wastage.

What it does

Buffalo Bites is a platform for users to purchase food at a discount from UB Dining centers and have it delivered by other students for a portion of the paid price.

How we built it

12:00 - 13:00 First we scoped out the requirements to decide the important features of the platform to be delivered in MVP
13:00 - 15:00 Then we created a high level UI design of these features using Figma
15:00 - 19:00 We built the frontend with mock data using the React.js framework
19:00 - 22:00 Started working on the presentation
22:00 - 02:00 Started building the backend with the moleculer.services framework & Mongo DB
06:00 - 09:00 Backend & Frontend Integration and testing the MVP features
09:00 - 10:00 Github CI/CD integration

Challenges we ran into

Faced difficulty with react contexts to share data across multiple pages
Faced issue with Github CI/CD automation due to a bug in the script
Building optimised docker image took a while since the code is not optimised for standalone npm build

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learnt technologies like react.js and moleculer.services in a short time
Github CI/CD automation with workflows
Figma design
Docker Deployments
Ability to scale our backend as multiple microservices instead of monolith service if needed with just a change in deploy configuration