fooDeals

Cristhian Da Silva, 

 Jamie LeMercier,  

Joe Cowton,

 Jolanta Jasiulionyte,  

Oleg Grushetskyy,  

Tabish Raza

• Special promotion products

 

• Brings great value for money to users

 

• Helps with reducing food wastage

 

• Integrates a mock-database and tesco-API

 

 

fooDeals  app

Challenges

Team Learning

 

• Rotating pairs regularly
• Using mind-mapping/ post-it notes
• Sticking to MVP stages - 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
• Playing to individual strengths

Features

 

• Present only special-offer products
• Search for product by typing in words
• Choose product by unique categories
• Data agnostic - plug in different databases

• Integrating backend and client servers.
• Extracting small components due to use of different databases.
• States and Routing.
• Testing.

Google oAuth

• We used Passport.js which is an authentication middleware for Node.js.
• Comprehensive strategies support authentication using Google.
•  Great learning experience of authentication control flow.

Integrating Tesco API

• Getting realtime grocery information
  In order to make the foodie project a viable proposition, it would need to interface to all the major food retailers systems to get real-time information.

What we learned:

• Perseverance pays off
• Emphasis on planning - stand up and retros
• Proper rest and meals for high quality work
• With time comes familiarity 
• Attention to detail