Better Bus Time API was a project for me to learn full stack web development during my tenure at General Assembly. Part of the learning process was deploying a server to Heroku. With recent policy changes, Heroku is discontinuing their free dynos. Unfortunately, I do not have the time to research and host with another free provider at this time. Perhaps I will re-deploy Better Bus Time API at a future time. Thank you for visiting!
This is the API servicing requests from the Better Bus Time front end application. This backend server primarly acts as a proxy to avoid CORS errors, due to the MTA OneBusAway API not providing an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. User accounts are also supported; users can pin their favorite bus routes and bus stops to see them at a glance on every page.
Packages are managed via npm. Run npm ci to avoid generating a new package-lock.json.
This API is written in Express running on Node.js. Data storage is handled via MongoDB + Mongoose. Adding user authentication was a learning journey. I made use of bcryptjs to hash user account passwords being stored in the database, and jsonwebtoken to provide authentication tokens to the client.