Waffles :D

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  Home Screen

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  Search Page

Inspiration

A lot of people have a lot of kindness to give. However, not everyone knows how they want to help the world. Do they want to push for women's rights, to end world hunger, or stop a war, the possibilities are endless. And even after that finding, a nonprofit-based foundation that does cause justice is another issue itself.

What it does

Waffles :D indexes, stores, and most importantly helps you find the best charities through an easy to use search engine.

How we built it

For the server-side we used mongo atlas for database hosting, we then worked on creating a restful backend using Express which we managed to link to our database using Mongoose. Then for the client-side, we used React for the main UI, Node-Sass for styling and sent requests to our API using Axios.

Challenges we ran into

To get the user's search query in the URL, we tried using Params and a simple form. However, by default Forms didn't route the way we needed it to. So instead we used the preventDefault function and redirected the user by ourselves.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The final UI had some kinks and mixed reviews but with the time we had, I believe we made a great minimalist style UI that is both intuitive and easy to use.

What's next for Waffles :D

Looking at Github their arent many open-source search engines and we decided since we already built why shouldn't we benefit the common good and give it out to the world.

Built With

• axios
• mongodb
• node.js
• react
• sass