travelingdoodle / FoodForCause-Handlebars

Food For Cause provides a platform to connect local community outreach programs, like food banks and kitchens, with companies that have food to donate. Node.js, Express, MySQL, Handlebars.js, Sequelize

FoodForCause

What does Food For Cause do for the community?

Problem

• Kansas City does not have a resource to connect food suppliers and organizations that provide food stuffs to the community.

• Many grocery stores, and restaurants throw away food that could go to good use.

  • Some of these items will expire soon.
  • Others items may have damaged packaging or other small defects that do not affect the quality of the product, but the store is still unable to sell the items.

• A large amount of food is unnecessarily wasted.

• Our community needs food assistance programs to thrive and care for those in need.

Solution

• Food For Cause provides a platform to connect local community outreach programs, like food banks and kitchens, with companies that have food to donate.
• This will help to reduce food waste, put the food to good use, and strengthen the community.

How Does it work?

• Grocery Stores, restaurants, and other businesses login and then post their available food items (including quantity, and expiration date).
• Food banks, and kitchens may reserve and pick up items.
• Unreserved items that are nearing expiration will be tweeted and text (SMS) to let the community know about their availability.

What powers FoodForCause?

• Node/ Express
• MySQL
• Sequelize
• Heroku
• Passport.js User Authentication

Updates

Please Feel Free To Submit A Pull Request!

ISSUES WITH DESIGN

• These issues seem to stem from the way that the info is centered on the top image.
  • Possible solution: Make the FoodForCause text at the top a permanent part of the img, or fixed position, and then have the rest of the stuff centered in the remaining space. (Thoughts, Meg?)
  • OCT.21: Perhaps remove the bio section at the bottom of every page and add an about us page with the pics/bio, also add a link for bug reporting, and a problems/soution/detailed description of the site (it should match the readme, and there is a sectiona about that below).
  • add.html
    • top of page is cut off, can't see 'food for cause' title
  • available.html
    • The papge starts further down than 'view.html' ... maybe an extra div?
• Oct.21:
  • The Food For Cause title and the menu bar are not fixed, and they get pushed up and cut off when there are more than a few results (a problem on all pages)
  • The search results overflow and break the page style

Nice To Have:

• Calculate remaining time until items expire, and display it use it for twilio / tweets
• Allow users to reserve a certain amount (lbs.) of an item
• Display the remaining amount of goods
• Alerts:
  • https://www.twilio.com/
    • Send Texts for notifications about specific items
  • Tweets to notify of available items that will expire soon
• Authentication
  • Reestablish (Disabled for ease of Presentation)
• Testing