##MEZZO
Dynamic travel magazine app built with Angular, Node.js, Angular Material, and Express. Uses Instagram, Expedia, Google Maps, Google Places, IBM Alchemy, Wikipedia, and Open Weather APIs.
Created by: Erin Moon
Heroku Link Mezzo
###App Features
- Takes your travel destination and dates to return personalized travel information.
- Creates an events pages using Expedias Things to do API, and the input city. With detailed descriptions.
- Gathers photos using Instagrams API. Based on tag being the input city with no spaces. (No filtering for NSFW cotnent).
- Uses IBM Alchemy API to find news articles about the input city, and displays links to read the full article.
- Calling Google Places, generates A list of restaurants in the input city, filtered by rating, and a 50,000 meter radius.
- Calling Google Places, generates A list of hotels in the input city, filtered by rating, and a 50,000 meter radius.
- Using the Wikipedia api, generates an information page about the input city.
- Gathers current weather information with Open Weathers API. Uses the input city and country as parameters.
- Creates an interactive city map using Googles Map API.
- If no data is put into travel information form. It will default to Tokyo Japan.
###Technology Used Angular, Node.js, Express, Angular-Material, Javascript.
####API's Used
Expedia Things To Do
IBM Alchemy
Instagram
Google Places
Google Maps
Wikipedia
Open Weather
###How to install
- Fork and download files from github to your desktop.
- Navigate to local directory of project in terminal, and run "NPM install". To download all the relevant node modules.
- Run "nodemon" in terminal to start up your local server.
- Navigate to "http://localhost:3000" in your browser to see the site.
- Input city, country, start date and end date. Hit the create button.
- Have fun! (You may need to change the file paths in the app/client/services.js file, if you are not on https. Alter the "https://mezzo-travel.herokuapp.com/api/COMPANY-NAME" to "http://localhost:3000/api/COMPANY-NAME".)
###Current Known Bugs
- IBM Watson api only has 24 calls a day. So if the rate limit is met, it will default to a test output file.
- Instagram photos have a lot of spam, and NSFW content. Would like to experiment with end points to limit this effect.
- Currently able to hit create button while required inputs are not filled out.
- Dialog windows give errors when closing.