Zhonglin-Niu / campusTrade

Campus Trader

• By:
  • Zachariah Jia
  • Zhonglin Niu

Inspiration

• Want to sell something? Doesn't know where to post your stuff?
• Facebook Market? NO!
• What if Calvin offers a website to sell your items?
  • That sounds great! Let's do it.

What it does

• It offers you options to sell your products, such as textbooks, bags, all your electronics!
• If you know something about 3D printing? You can also sell your inventions here!
• Want to build a PC? Maybe you can find what you need here!
• You'll need to sign in using your Calvin Email. (@calvin.edu)
• Create and post your product.
• Search for products you need.
• Filter products using categories and tags.

How we built it

1. Use Python's Flask web framework to develop the website.
2. ElementUI for component library.
3. Used JSON as database.
4. Python and Flask as back-end
5. TypeScript and Vue for front-end

Challenges we ran into

• Forming the basic forms of database
• Formatting the database.
• Creating animations for pictures.
• Filtering the products.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Displaying the products.
• Creating, updating, removing products.
• Filtering products using category and tags

What's next for Campus Trader

• Cooperate with CIT, and using Calvin AD for login authentication.
• Integrating email function.