Nearest items

Finding items that are nearest to a user. The main two factors in the search are:

• Text match: the user types a word or phrase that they want to find, and the search returns items that match this.
• Location: the user indicates their location (through geolocation or through typing in the location search box) and the search returns items near the user

Getting started

• First clone the repo and then run npm i
• To start server: npm start
• To run tests: npm t

Technology choices

Node

• Chosen because easy to integrate existing libraries e.g. better-sqlite3 and swagger.io and because the API returns a JSON (i.e. a native JS object)

Hapi

• Used because it's quick to get set up and comes with Shot for testing

####�Better sqlite3

• Chosen because it is fast and lightweight. As the database grows I am keen to keep the speed of the location queries down. Therefore performance was a priority when selecting an sqlite library

Tape

• Chosen because very little configuration is needed to get started

Enhancements

• Improved modular error handling
• Use swagger.io for documenting the API