student marketplace

summary

The purpose of this project was to create an online marketplace specifically catering to college students. The marketplace, Gator Trader, would allow students to buy and sell items locally by creating "posts".

tools used

Gator Trader was created using:

• Node.js with Express.js
• MySQL
• Bootstrap
• Nunjucks (templating engine)
• AWS

my role / contribution

As the backend lead I was tasked with designing and creating the MySQL database to serve our application, as well as making the necessary modifications. I researched and implemented the most widely-used modules to use for our application's needs, such as for file uploads, password encryption, and sessions. I helped my backend team understand the structure of the code set up by our team leader, and explained what needed to be done for some of the tasks they were assigned to do.

Gator Trader

Some screenshots of the final product. (with UI needing polishing)