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REST API docs

Fat Hen is a project by Davis Crain as his final project for The Iron Yard Backend Engineering class in Greenville, SC.

You can learn more about Davis at dhcrain.com.

Feature Set:

Non Logged in users can

• Search for farmers market
• See what vendors are at each farmers market
• See the 7 day forecast for farmers markets locations
• Read reviews and status updates
• Contact me to claim listings or for any reason.

Logged In users can (all the above plus….)

• Review a farmers market - Comment and rate 1 to 5
• Review a vendor - comment and rate 1 to 5
• Favorite a farmers market
• Favorite a vendor
• Add vendors and farmers markets
• Profile page with:
  • List of favorite farmers markets
  • List of favorite vendors
  • Culminated status statuses of vendors and farmers markets, chronologically.

Farmers Market Owners can:

• Update status with picture
• Claim if they will have the market this week
• Update information
• Update pictures
• Add vendors

Vendor Owners can:

• Update status with picture
• Claim if they will be present at the market
• Update information
• Update pictures
• All farmers markets in South Carolina from [South Carolina Dept. of Agriculture](South Carolina Dept. of Agriculture)
• Vendors at TD Saturday Market & Travelers Rest Farmers Market from their websites.

Technology Used:

• Django 1.9.7
• Python 3.5.1
• Django REST API framework 3.4.1
• Heroku
• PostgreSQL
• AWS S3 - Static assets and media uploads
• Django-review for the reviews and averaging of scores. (I would not use this next time, it can make it challenging to work with the data.)
• forecast.io API - for 7 day forecast at farmers market locations
• Google Maps API embed
• Foundation CSS framework
• FontAwesome

Long Term Wish List:

• Mobile! responsive web site and/or App
• Weekly email of status updates to users of favorites
• Link to social media for vendors to be able to dual post
• Send a text to vendors to check in for the week
• Search for a farmers market by Zip code radius
• Display all farmers markets on a map
• Expand to other states, NC first
• OAuth - Sign in with Google, Facebook, and Twitter