Week 12 Update

Welcome to your weekly dose of the QC Quail. Today’s post is another status update on the Augustana Market. Throughout this week, the team made some major strides in the user-friendliness of the marketplace. We implemented an instant search feature through Algolia, a helpful search site and API. The search feature makes sifting through many items a complete breeze.  A picture of the search implementation is below.

On top of the search feature, we also gave users the ability to edit their posted items in case they type something incorrectly when creating it. Additionally, when creating an item to sell, the user can now upload images of their personal items they are selling, and if it is a book, they can input its ISBN number to auto populate some of the fields, thanks to Google Books API.

Finally, the QC team spent a lot of time this week working on refactoring our code to significantly increase the clarity of our codebase. While creating a user-friendly app is important, keeping our code clean is another priority for the team.

That is all we have for you today but make sure to tune in next week for another update.