Inspiration
Recent trends in fast fashion have swept the internet, causing many people to look for cheap, low-quality clothing. Try-on hauls and shopping sprees have increased as a result, causing a lot of items to be thrown away before the end of their life cycle. Inspired to make a change about this wastage of perfectly usable items, we created ValuEx.
What it does
ValuEx is a website service that offers a catalogue of second-hand items submitted by users. It provides the seller's information to interested buyers to encourage a transaction, effectively diverting items from being thrown away. The interactive website was built with all devices in mind, prioritizing user experience and intuition.
How we built it
For the front end, we used the Bulma.io library accompanied by HTML5, CSS3, and Js to provide the user with a clean and intuitive UI. For the backend, we used Express.js and Node.js to pull and send necessary data from the SQLite Database. This was done by sending requests to the backend API and getting the necessary data from the frontend.
Challenges we ran into
- Getting the front-end to communicate with the database through the back-end code
- Dynamically rendering each listing from the database
- Specifying which category to be listed after user selects the filters
- Server-side tracking of who was logged in
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Being able to dynamically render items from the database
- Being able to use backend apis to interface with the front end
- Creating a clean and intuitive UI/UX
What's next for ValuEx
We hope to implement more specific search options for users to more easily find the item that they want. We also want to implement a feature that generates the closest listing to the user as not only a gas-saving method but also a more environmentally friendly trip.
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