The Real Junk Food Project

🚀 Click the logo above, it will link to the web application

Context

TRJFP is a global movement aiming to abolish surplus food through a variety of Pay As You Feel concepts.

They work with international and local partners to intercept food destined for landfill and redistribute it through a network of Pay As You Feel Sharehouses, cafes and school partnerships.

The App

The goal of this app is to verify drivers from TRJFP sent to pick up excess food from suppliers. There have been problems with drivers picking up food when they're not supposed to, or people impersonating TRJFP drivers in order to take and sell the food themselves. Our main objectives are:

to make the supplier feel confident that they are giving food to the correct person
to create a record of what drivers have been to which suppliers.

One request from the client is that we include a code that changes daily in order to help secure the verification.

Implementation

Planning:

Figma (prototyping):

Product:

Tech Stack

Tech	Stack
Front-end	React
Styling	Styled-components, CSS
Back-end	Node-Express
Database	Airtable API
Test	Jest
Deployment	Heroku

Installation for developing environment

Clone repo onto your local machine git clone https://github.com/fac-15/the-real-junk-food-project.git
Install dependencies npm i
Start development environment npm run devstart
Run node server (nodemon must be installed globally) nodemon server.js
Enjoy exploring our app ✨

Managing the App

TRJFP App uses Airtable (similar in use to Google Sheets) as an accessible database which must be maintained by a TRJFP administrator
Driver and supplier details must be input manually by the administrator (including the pin and ID) which must then be manually communicated to the parties involved
When a driver is verified, a record is created in the Airtable database which can be checked by the administrator