Club Connector

Club Connector is a Meteor web application that me and three other students developed for our software engineering class. Club Connector is a place where University of Hawaii students can go to quickly find clubs based on their interests.

On the main page of the website, each club gets a card with a little bit of information about the club on it. The card also contains a link to the club’s profile, where the user can get in-depth information about the organization. The main page also features a search bar, which users can use to find specific clubs. If they don’t know exactly what club they are looking for, they can use the sites filter system to do a general search of topics. Once a user logs in, they can save their preferred filters, and their favorite clubs.

For more information please see the Project Page

My Contribution

My main contribution to the project was the functionality of the browse page. I set up the system that uses information from the search bar, filter bar, and the user’s favorites, to create a list of clubs that matches the specifications. I also set up the system for loading and saving default filters.

What I Learned

This project gave me a lot of experience with JavaScript, Semantic UI, Meteor, and MongoDB. Through this experience, I have learned a lot about how Meteor templates interact with each other, with Semantic elements, and with the underlying Mongo database. I also got to practice using GitHub with a larger team than I am used to. We used GitHub’s Issue system to track tasks, and we used GitHub’s projects to organize those tasks into milestones. Since our team could only meet about once a week, this system was perfect for keeping track of who was doing what, and what needed to be done.