BANDANA

This project was the first group project of the Penn Coding Boot Camp.

Goal

To create an app to find concerts with your favorite artists, having everything you need in one tab. The app let the user search by artist, location and a range of dates, and shows information about the location, gives directions to the venue and displays a link to get tickets.

Set-up

The users needs to enter their own API keys for the following services:

1. Google Maps API
2. Bands in Town API
3. Firebase DB

Functionality

This simple yet powerfull application consists of two parts: a search form and a recent searches section. We would like to implement some new and exciting features in the near future:

Implemented

Section	Action
Search	Show up to 10 upcoming shows for a specific artist
Recent Searches	Show the last (non-repeated) searches among all users

Future Development

Feature	Description
Log in	Allow users to log in in order to save their searches and favorite artists
More powerful search	Currently the artist field is required in order to search. We would like for the user to be able to search by location and/or dates without entering an artist name. We will also add a genre field, in order to look for events that match a specific music genre
Improve maps	The map displayed in the search results will be fully interacive, without leaving the site
Music sample	A music sample for the artist will be added to the search results
Most popular searches	We will add a section at the bottom of the page that shows, not only the latest searches, but also the most searched for artists
One-button search	The recent searches section will be interactive in order for the user to trigger a search for a specific artist with just one click

Built using:

• HTML
• CSS / Bootstrap
• Photoshop
• Vex Dialog
• Javascript / JQuery / Moment.js
• Google Maps API
• Bands in Town API
• Firebase DB
• Local Storage

Authors

Guillermo Barila

• Name & logo
• Google Maps API
• Refined search result layout
• API key security

Angelina DiFrancesco

• Bands In Town API
• Dynamically generate search results
• New library implementation
• PowerPoint presentation

Vitalii Khoruzhyi

• UX/UI design
• Managed Github master branch

Katie Lytch

• Project Proposal
• Recent Search section
• Firebase DB