VowVow Dog Walkers

A full stack web application for dog owners to find and book dog walkers.

Overview

• Users can create an account and then login to finish their pet-owner and/or sitter profile, which uses Cloudinary API for picture storage.

• After creating their dog(s) profile, a pet-owner can search for a sitter using date and time filters.

• Google calendar is used to query for available sitters, and once a pet owner creates a new booking, this is then added to the sitter's calendar.

• Bookings for the next 7 days are displayed in the user's dashboard, while the remaining and past ones are displayed in all-bookings tab.

Motivation

My motivation to build this web application came from my experience using several pet-sitter apps during my time working as a dog walker.

Walkthrough video

walk_through1.mp4

walk_through2.mp4

Technologies

This project was created with:

• Backend: Python 3.7, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL

• Frontend: Java Script, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Jinja2, AJAX

• Libraries: Flask Bcrypt, Flask-Login

API'S

• Cloudinary API

• Google Calendar API

Set Up

Prerequisites

To run Vowvow Dog Walkers, you must have installed:

• PostgreSQL
• Python 3.7
• API Key for Cloudinary's API
• Google Credentials for Google Calendar API

Clone or fork repository:

git clone https://github.com/efranzener/Dog-walker-App

Create and activate a virtual environment within your directory

virtualenv env source env/bin/activate

Install requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Get a Cloudinary API Key and save it in a file called secrets.sh using this format.

export cloud_name = "THE_CLOUD_NAME_GOES_HERE"
export cloudinary_api_key=="YOUR API_KEY_GOES_HERE"
export api_secret="YOUR_API_SECRET_GOES_HERE"

Sign up to the Google Cloud console to create a OAuth 2.0 Client IDs credential for Desktop app, and define the following scopes of data access for your credentials:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events

Download and save the credentials in a file called credentials.json

Source your keys into your virtual environment:

source secrets.sh

Run model.py to create all SQL database models Run the app:

bash
python3 model.py

To run the app from the command line:

python3 server.py

About the Developer

Etyene Franzener is a Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. Vowvow Dog Walkers was her first full-stack web application, and it was built as a capstone project for Hackbright Academy, a 6 months full-stack software engineering program. With a focus on the customer experience, Etyene is eager to learn more and build meaningful products that make people's lives easier.