Bucketbee

Lifestyle app for global citizens

Bucketbee is a mobile app designed to help frequent travellers and global citizens keep tabs on their favourite people and places.

1. It helps users connect with close friends and family conveniently with "quick actions" such as sending out location updates.
2. Users can create buckets, in which they can categorize and customize their favorite places for future reference.
3. Users can personalize their own places, digital postcards, and even profile style.

Getting started

The client and server for this project has been split up into two separate repos; both need to be up and running for the app to be functional. Find the client here.

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/pamelakaylin/Bucketbee_Server.git

2. Navigate into the root folder and install the dependencies

npm install

3. Database

• Make sure you have MongoDB installed and running! Run the following command with Homebrew to check

brew services list 

• Create an .env file and add DB_NAME=[your_db_name_here]

4. Start the server!

node index.js

or if you have Nodemon installed

nodemon

5. Set up the client if you haven't already done so

• You can find instructions in the client README here.

App demo video

Here is the original app demo video on Youtube!

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React Native
• Expo
• Apollo Client with WebSocket Subscriptions
• React Spring
• Lottie

Backend

• GraphQL
• Apollo Server with WebSocket Subscriptions
• MongoDB
• Mongoose

APIs

• Google Maps
• Google Places
• Cloudinary

Contributors ✨

Pamela Chen

• Github
• LinkedIn

Next Steps

• Bucketbee is fully optimized for IOS and is currently being adapted for Android
• After some finishing touches, Bucketbee will be launched via the App Store and Google Play Store 🚀