# Dollar Finder

## _FIND the best deals and save your DOLLARS_

Dollar Finder is a platform that facilitates sharing of information regarding better priced daily necessities and utilities, so that students can easily share and see deals that will help save money.

## Web Version

Access the latest stable version of [Dollar Finder](https://dollarfinder.netlify.app/).

## Tech

Dollar Finder uses the following tech stack:

- [ReactJS](https://reactjs.org/) - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces!
- [React Router](https://reactrouter.com/) - for Client-based navigation within the web app
- [Material UI](https://material-ui.com/) - pre-built React components for faster and easier web development
- [Google Maps Platform](https://developers.google.com/maps) - JavaScript API for [Places Autocomplete](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places-autocomplete) to enable easier location input

## Installation

You need to have npm or yarn installed.
Clone the repo into a local directory. Then install the dependencies using npm or yarn.

```sh
cd dollar-finder
npm install (or) yarn install
```

For running the web app on your local browser...

```sh
npm start (or) yarn start
```

To end the server...

```sh
(Ctrl + C on the terminal)
Y
```

## Developers

Front-end --> this repo

- [Yeluri Ketan](https://github.com/YeluriKetan) - Computer Science, NUS '24

Back-end --> [his repo](https://github.com/CommanderW324/DollarFinderServer)

- [Winston Cahya](https://github.com/CommanderW324) - Computer Science, NUS '24

An AY2020-2021 CP2106 Independent Software Development Project (Orbital)
by students of SoC NUS.

## Repo stats

- repo created on 23rd June, 2021
- latest update on 31st July, 2021
- approx. 4160 lines of written code over a span of 39 days in 41 commits to the main branch
- around 200 hours spent on this project

## Author

[Yeluri Ketan](https://github.com/YeluriKetan) - Undergraduate, Computer Science, NUS '24
