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.

Technologies:

• React.js
• Yelp API
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Create React App
• cors-anywhere
• node.js & npm

Warning regarding cors-anywhere

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.

Create React App

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

Using this project

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 start and open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.