About Ravenous
Ravenous is a restaurant search directory:
- users search for an eatery by term and location
- users prioritise search by best match, highest rated, or most reviewed
- search results are displayed visually as cards, detailing each business's image, name, address, rating, number of reviews and food category
- responsive SPA web app
This project was built as part of Codecademy Pro's Create a Front-End App with React skill path. Webdesign and assets belong to Codecademy.
- React.js
- Yelp API
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Create React App
- cors-anywhere
- node.js & npm
Please note that cors-anywhere is used as a temporary workaround to CORS related issues which occur when developing a front-end app without a backend. In a commercial environment a project would have a backend and not need this CORS workaround.
The limitation of cors-anywhere is that access to this service is temporary. It runs out. Which stops the API from working, until access is requested manually from cors-anywhere. Access lasts maybe one or two days only.
It is fine to use as a stop-gap in development, or for people like myself who are building sample projects to develop and practice skills rather than for serious use, however is not a long term solution.
This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.
To run this project:
- you will need a node environment
- clone or fork this project
- install npm in the root of the project directory
- to run the app in development mode, in the project directory run
npm startand open https://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.