Walk My dog (Backend) - Connecting Dog Owners with Dog Walkers

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The challenge
  • Screenshot
  • Links
• The process
  • Built with
  • What we learned
  • Continued development
  • Useful resources
• Authors

Overview

The challenge

The key challenge of this application was to incorporate a payment gateway & Single Sign On (SSO) allowing Dog Owners to book a dog walker and pay them on completion. Think Uber but for Dog Owners.

The main backend technologies (amongst others) underpinning the above utilises Express, Postgres, Stripe and Yup.

Screenshot

• Coming Soon

Links

• Solution URL: []
• Solution Code Frontend: [https://github.com/mistergjones/walkmydog]
• Solution Code Backend: [https://github.com/mistergjones/walkmydogbackend]

The process

• Establish the idea.
• whiteboard / develop UI flows.
• create database table structure (normalised).
• identify key technologies (i.e. Axios, Node.js, Cloudinary, Stripe) that will for part of the solution.

Built with

• Bcrpyt (for encryption)
• Cors (caters for accessing a web server from a different origin)
• Dotenv (for environment variables)
• Express (the WAF)
• Jsonwebtoken (for cookie persistence)
• PG (for Postgress Database) (for animated pics)
• Stripe (for payment processing)
• Yup (for data validation)

What was learnt

• To be documented

Continued development

• To be documented

Authors

• Glen Jones - [https://www.glenjones.com.au]
• Peter Hristakos