Access Transit 🚞

A JavaScript application that locates the subway stations with elevators and escalators in New York City

_{Built with ✨ by Annie Zheng and Mohammed Shaikh}

🧭Explore: Demo || Deployed App || Backend

Features

• View MTA subway stations via Google Maps
• Filter subway stations based on accessibility options:
  • Elevator
  • Escalator
• View and leave reviews of each subway station

Tech Stack

This web app is built with the following:

Backend

• Ruby [2.6.1]
• Rails [~> 6.0.2] - MVC web framework used as an API
• Active Model Serializers [~> 0.10.0] - Serializing API routes to JSON
• PostgreSQL [>= 0.18, < 2.0] - Database

Front End

• Vanilla JavaScript [ES6]
• Custom CSS3 styling
• Bootstrap [4.0.0]
• Google Maps JavaScript API

Installing

Backend Installation:

• Clone backend repo to your local machine git clone <backend-repo-url>
• run bundle install to install required dependencies
• run rails db:create to create a database locally.
• run rails db:migrate to create tables into the database.
• run rails db:seed to create seed data.
• run rails s to run the server.

Frontend Installation:

• Clone this repo to your local machine git clone <this-repo-url>
• Ensure transit-backend is running locally on http://localhost:3000/
• run open index.html