College
Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Date of Last Revision
2023-05-04 19:44:13
Major
Computer Science
Honors Course
3460:498
Number of Credits
3
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Date of Expected Graduation
Spring 2021
Abstract
The goal of this project was to create a website that helped a common person search for items from online marketplaces, such as eBay, Amazon, or Facebook Marketplace. The intention was to ease the burden of needing to search several different websites for the same product. Currently, if a person wants to look for a specific item on multiple different marketplaces, they must go to each marketplace individually and search for it. They must enter their specifications repeatedly and load virtually the same web page multiple times. This project’s goal was to condense that so the user would only have to put in that information once and then could search all of the marketplaces at once. In order to create this project, I taught myself the setup of Ruby on Rails and Angular, as well as how to use public APIs. The project is built on the Rails framework with Ruby as the backend language, Angular as the front end version of JavaScript, a Postgres database, and JSON data objects to transmit data between the front and backend.
Research Sponsor
Dr. Yingcai Xiao
First Reader
Dr. En Cheng
Second Reader
Dr. Michael Collard
Honors Faculty Advisor
Dr. Zhong-Hui Duan
Recommended Citation
Hopkins, Devin, "Online Marketplace" (2021). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 1292.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/1292