Indie Maps

A web application to help you find independent (indie) coffee shops near you.

View the site live

• Please note, the backend server has a cold start (but it's free!), so the first search may be slow to respond.

Features

Current features

• Find coffee shops near your current location
• Find coffee shops near a manually set starting location
• Optionally filter out chains to see only indie coffee shops in the results
• Adjust the search radius
• View results on the map and/or in a list
• Interact with results on the map

Feature wishlist

• Autocomplete starting location
• Set search params in url
• Customize which chains get filtered out
• New categories (e.g. boba)
• View more details about a result (e.g. hours, amenities, menu)
• Save a result to favorites
• Reflect search params in the url

Tech Stack

Frontend

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Leaflet.js
• Hosted on Netlify

Backend

• Node.js, Koa, free tier of geolocation/point-of-interest APIs
• Hosted on Render

Project Structure

• client - Frontend application
• server - Backend / proxy server, handles forwarding requests to third party APIs

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• npm >= 8.0.0

Installation

Install dependencies:

npm run install:all

Development

Start both client and server:

npm start

Run the client:

npm run start:client

Run the server:

npm run start:server

Building for production

npm run build:all