National Park Service Guide 🏞️

"Discover America's Story: The National Parks"

About

NPS Guide is a site where users can view available activities at a given national park and select their preferred activities to add to a bucket list. The inspiration for my project stems from my passion for exploring national parks, where I save activities in my phone that I want to check out while I am there. NPS Guide serves as a perfect solution!

API

National Park Service API

Tech Stack

• Python
• Flask
• PostgreSQL
• SQLAlchemy
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• HTML
• Jinja
• CSS
• Bootstrap

Features

• New user registration using Bootstrap
• User functionality
  • Search a park of their choice
  • View the available activities at that given park
  • Save activities to an existing bucket list or create a new bucket list
  • Set a preferred date for these acivities to occur
  • Login and Logout

Deployment

• Deployed via Lightsail on AWS
• Visit NPS Guide at http://www.nps-guide.com/

Installation

Virtual Environment

Create a virtual environment to install requirements

$ virtualenv
$ source env/bin/activate

Prerequisites

All the prerequisites are in the requirements.txt file

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run Server

python3 server.py

Using NPS Guide

1. Register as a new user or login to your account

2. Choose a National Park

3. Select activity(s) that are available at that park to be added to a bucket list

4. Once activity(s) are added to a bucket list you can update your planned date

5. In your profile you can view all of your bucket lists

Version 2.0

• Rebuild frontend using React
• Alphabetically sort parks list
• Replace dropdown menu on parks page with a search bar

Author

Marissa Aguilera - Initial work - LinkedIn GitHub

Acknowledgments

• Hackbright Instructors: Marisa Gloor, Katrina Huber-Juma, Andrew Blum
• Mentors: Nakita Strangeways, Rachael Morton

Thank you all for your endless support and guidance throughout the cohort!