Ravenous

Practice website made in React. It interacts with the Yelp API to give search results of Food & Drink businesses through search, which can be filtered by Best Match, Highest Rated or Most Reviewed.

Instructions

Follow these instructions to install on local environment and test it out.

1. Get a Yelp API Key

• Go to Yelp Developers
• Log In or Create an account if necessary.
• From the links on page, click on “Yelp Fusion”.
• Click on Manage API access on the top-right.
• You’ll land on the “Create Page” section, if not, click on it on the left menu.
• Fill out the required fields, agree to Terms and Conditions and create the app.
• Copy the API Key presented to you (remember to keep it safe and never share it with anyone).

2. Setting up Website

• Clone this repository:
  • Run git clone https://github.com/ericsonrd/ravenous.git on your terminal, or
  • Click on “Code” button above.
• Open in VSCode or any other IDE
• Open .env file in Root folder
• Paste your Yelp API Key on the variable placeholder and save.
• Launch server (npm start)
  • If server is already running, restart to apply the API Key
  • If presented with a CORS Issue on console, open link from error and click on button presented to get access.

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