MeetPin

1. Developers

• Adam Nilsson
• Felix Morau
• Victor Persson

2. Requirements

• Node
• npm
• A Google Maps+Places API key.

3. Installation

1. Clone / download the repo
2. Open the terminal/cmd and cd into the cloned repo.
3. Create a file called config.js which includes the code

   const APIkeys = {
     googleMaps: "{{ YOUR GOOGLE MAPS + PLACES KEY HERE }}"
   }
   module.exports = APIkeys

   and put it in the src folder.

4. write npm install

4. Run the application

1. cd into the repo
2. write $ npm start
3. navigate to http://localhost:3000/

Justification of React

React was chosen as the framework due to the single-page nature of the application. Reacts strenght lies in building applications where the page components gets updated regulary without updating the page, therefore a framework such as Jquery was discarded in favor of React [1].

The reason why react was chosen in favor of Angular is that React is a more popular framework, it is more lightweight and the developers did not have to learn TypeScript (as they had no experience with typed languages) [2]. React also have a much more active community which makes the process of finding and fixing errors easier [2].

Vue was also considered, however, since the majority of the group already has a relatively deep knowledge of Vue and this project is a learning experience, the group decided not to repeat what we know and instead try to take on React and learn new concepts and face new challenges.

Sources.

[1]. Anton Tibblin, Malmö Universitet, Sweden, Föreläsning 10. JS-ramverk

[2] https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d2314e190 Github