Eat well and cheaper than usually

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• Introduction
• Objective - Workshop in 1 sentence
• How to do that?
  • Stack
• Just tell me what to do
• Examples of steps to do
  • Investigation
    • Michelin Restaurant
    • Deals from LaFourchette
    • The web application
  • Server-side with Node.js
    • require('michelin')
    • require('lafourchette')
  • Client-side with React
  • Notification (bonus)
• Don't forget
• Licence

Each year, Michelin publish the Michelin Red Guide which awards Michelin stars to some restaurants.

The criteria for the stars are:

1. Michelin star "A very good restaurant in its category" (Une très bonne table dans sa catégorie)
2. Michelin stars: "Excellent cooking, worth a detour" (Table excellente, mérite un détour)
3. Michelin stars: "Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey" (Une des meilleures tables, vaut le voyage)

Ther average price for a starred restaurant could start from 50€ up to more than 400€.

Thanks the LaFourchette, you can book a restaurant at the best price and get exclusive offers and discount up to 50%.

Get the current deal for a French Michelin starred restaurants.

By creating a link between restaurant.michelin.fr, lafourchette.com and the end-user.

Node.js + React + Material Design (mdl, bootstrap, foundation...) + ES6 [+ docker + redis ...]

1. Fork the project via github
2. Clone your forked repository project https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/top-chef

❯ cd /path/to/workspace
❯ git clone [email protected]:YOUR_USERNAME/top-chef.git

1. Follow the steps
2. commit your different modifications:

❯ cd /path/to/workspace/top-chef
❯ git add -A && git commit -m "feat(restaurants): fetch list of starred restautants"

(why following a commit message convention?)

1. Don't forget to push before the end of the workshop and before the end of the 2 dedicated sessions

❯ git push origin master

Note: if you catch an error about authentication, add your ssh to your github profile.

1. If you need some helps on git commands, read git - the simple guide

1. How it works https://restaurant.michelin.fr
2. What are the given properties for a starred restaurant: name, adress, town, stars, chef... ?
3. ...

Some things to do:

1. Browse the website
2. define the JSON schema for a restaurant
3. ...

Example of Restaurant: https://restaurant.michelin.fr/2abl39j/le-chiberta-paris-08

1. How it works https://www.lafourchette.com
2. What are the properties that we need to provide to lafourchette.com to get a deal ?
3. How to identify a deal on the page ?
4. ...

Some things to do:

1. Browse the website
2. Check how that you can get the deal: api etc.... (check network activity)
3. define the properties required to get a deal
4. define the JSON schema for a deal
5. ...

Example of a deal: https://www.lafourchette.com/restaurant/le-chiberta-stephane-laruelle-guy-savoy/2828

Some things to do:

1. How to create a link between the starred restaurant and lafourchette?

Create a module called michelin that return the list of restaurant

const michelin = require('michelin');

console.log(michelin.get());

Some things to do:

1. scrape list of French starred restaurants
2. store the list into JSON file, nosql database (like redis, mongodb...)
3. create a node module that return the list

Create a module called lafourchette that return the available deal for a given restaurant

const lafourchette = require('lafourchette');
...
const restaurant = {...};


console.log(lafourchette.getDeal(restaurant));

Some things to do:

1. create the calls (api, http) to get the restaurant page
2. get the deal (by scraping or decoding api response)
3. return the deal

MVP to do:

1. List French starred restaurant and their current deals

Next features:

2. Add filters:

• filtering by name
• sorting by stars

3. Bonus: Display on a map only the starred restaurants with an active deal

Some things to do:

1. Notify me (discord or slack) a new deal for any starred restaurant
2. Monitor and notify a new deal for a given restaurant

Focus on codebase and UX/UI

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