Frontier

A travel app for solo travellers who want to explore the globe without fear. Be part of an online community where you can share your unique travel routes, make connections and explore areas with other like-minded travellers. A focus on safety to achieve fearless travel for all users.

Check out a demo here:

Screenshots

Getting started

These instruction will help you setup a local development instance of the app.

get the repo

fork this repository

git clone https://github.com/Hough-Lab/Frontier

Setup

Prerequisites

You will need to have an active Google API key along with a Cloudinary API key to run the App both on mobile and web versions.

Steps

• Create config.ts file in /Client adjust the necessary variables to match your system. There is a config-example file to help you with this process, replace the needed fields with your own IP address and API keys.

• Create config.js file in /server/src. There is a config-example file to help you with this process. Edit the file with your database details.

To be able to open the mobile App, you need to either download the Expo Go app on your mobile or have the Android Studio installed in your computer.

Installation

Install all dependencies at once.

npm run install-all

OR

2 separate installations are required: one for the backend and one for the frontend.

Backend

Make sure you have postgreSQL installed on your machine mac || windows Go to the /server and run:

• npm i

FrontEnd

Go to the /Client and run npm i.

Start the App

From the root folder of the project change into /server/src and npm start

Mobile App

From the root folder of the project change into /Client/mobile and npm start

Web App

From the root folder of the project change into /Client/web/src and npm start

Tech-Stack

Frontend

• TypeScript
• Redux
• Lottie

Mobile App

• React Native with Expo

Web App

• React

Backend

• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Express
• Sequelize
• PostgreSQL

API

• Google Places API
• Cloudinary

Observations

Room for improvements

• Better typing for TypeScript
• Write tests
• Better UI for web version

Next orders

• Deploy Frontier to the play store
• Add connecting to friends + chat features
• Make it friends with iOS

Contributors

Co-creators and Full-Stack Engineers:

• Alexandra Burnside GitHub profile
• Bibek Gurung GitHub profile
• Caroline Victor-Pujebet GitHub profile
• David Solsona GitHub profile
• James Hough GitHub profile
• James Poulton GitHub profile