What the Truck is a web platform for UCLA students living on the Hill to rate and review food trucks.
UCLA dining only gives us a list of food trucks, not information on the food they serve as they do for their dining halls. On talking to several others, we realized that many students would find a source of information on every day's food trucks useful. We take it a step further - not only do we enable students to share food truck menus, but even rate and review food trucks and share pictures of the food.
See what others are saying about food trucks on the Hill and avoid a bad meal. Scroll through pictures and browse through what your peers think about every single food truck on the Hill.
Recommend the best food trucks to eat at or criticize you didn't particularly enjoy. Upload pictures of the food, the menu, and anything else. You can choose to be anonymous: our app does not expose the email you used to sign up but instead uses a username you pick.
We strive to make our service a one-stop destination for everything UCLA food trucks. It periodically monitors UCLA's official dining page and tells you the highest-rated food trucks available today. You can even search for trucks serving cuisines you're looking for.
Perform the following actions on your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/shlokj/what-the-truck
Or, just download a zip directly through GitHub and extract it locally.
cd what-the-truck
npm i or npm install
FYI: We initially decided to build this app entirely on the MERN stack, which means we had the frontend and backend in separate folders. We modified the package.json so that the normal npm scripts would perform the necessary operations on both the backend and frontend. npm i actually installs dependencies in subfolders, not in the root.
npm start
Similar to the previous FYI, this script has been modified.
Create an account and join the Hill in critiquing food trucks!