Binge

API supporting iOS app Binge: https://github.com/wfgilman/Binge-iOS

Description

RESTful JSON webservice featuring:

• SMS based authentication using JSON webtoken
• PostgreSQL database
• AWS S3 hosting of images for over 1,500 dishes across 80 restaurants
• Erlang Term Store (ETS) cache to quickly identify matches during swiping
• Automatic expiry of liked dishes from cache
• iOS Push notifications on dish or restaurant match when perusing with friend

Data

• Manually curated catalog of menu items images and restaurant metadata for Redwood City, CA
• CSV of restaurant metadata parsed and seeded into database table
• CSV of concatenated restaurant and menu item (dish) name parsed, seeded and keyed to restaurant
• User created account profile via mobile app
• User-friend records
• Many-to-many user-friend dish matches

Credits

• Web server using Phoenix 1.6
• iOS Push Notifications by Pigeon
• Webtoken Authentication by Guardian 2.0
• SMS Messaging with Twilio and API bindings
• Application Performance Monitoring by AppSignal
• Elixir/Erlange Releases using Distillery
• Hosting and deployment using Gigalixir