This is a prototype for the Food Trucks service. It is hosted at http://sleepy-everglades-9394.herokuapp.com/ (The source code is at https://github.com/MythriNagaraju/uberchallenge)
When the user enters a valid address, it displays a list of nearby food trucks.
I chose the full-stack technical track.
For the front end, I have used twitter bootstrap and for the backend, I have used Python-Django framework and also PostgreSQL for the database.
I know that Uber uses Python as a primary language for the backend, and also I have been developing in Python-Django the last one year. So, I had no second thoughts about what technology to use for the backend. I have worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB before, but chose PostgreSQL for it’s ease of use.
I have just started playing around with twitter bootstrap in my current job and I learnt more of while developing this app. I have also used a little bot of CSS for the static files.
I used the Python geocoder module to calculate the distance between an input address and the given locations in the database
A few more things I would have liked to add to the existing functionality:
- Use Google Maps API to drop pins on the nearby foodtrucks' locations
- More tests