Is It Busy Or Not

With lock down easing but social distancing still being critical we wanted to create an app that allows users to leave the house with the knowledge that the area they want to visit wont be too busy.

Is it Busy Or Not is a Single Page Web Application that allows the user to search for any area and see in real-time the number of tweets in the last hour within a kilometer radius of that point, this gives the user a good indication of how busy that area is.

Link to Demo

Table of Contents

• Is It Busy Or Not
• Table of Contents
• Tech Stack
• How to run
• Contributers

Tech Stack

• React
• Express
• Twitter API

How to run

Head to the Twitter Devloper site and apply for a API key Once you have recieved an API key and API secret key you will need to run the following in your terminal to generate a bearer token

curl -u '<API key>:<API secret key>' \
  --data 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
  'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token'

Following this, clone the repo

cd isitbusyornot
npm install
touch .env

add the following to your env file

REACT_APP_API_KEY=<key>
REACT_APP_API_SECRET_KEY=<secretkey>
REACT_APP_TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN=<bearertoken>

then run

npm run server

in a seperate terminal

cd client
npm install
npm start

visit local host 3000 in your browser of choice

Contributers

• Peter Dean
• Peter Stevens
• Karla Gardiner
• Will Grace
• James Oddy
• Paulo Azoia
• Arjun Roy