Welcome to 🐾Pawsome Connections, a web application created by a team of four passionate developers who share a love for animals. We developed this application in hopes to help older animals and animals who have been waiting to be adopted over 30 days get adopted.

With 🐾Pawsome Connections, users can browse a list of animals eagerly awaiting their perfect match. Seamlessly search for your ideal companion by animal type and location, tailoring your quest to find that special fur-ever friend. User's are also able to favorite their dream pets and view all their selected favorites on a seperate page, ensuring they're just a whisker away whenever they're ready to make their final choice. Does an adorable cat catch your eye? You can click on the card to view a more detailed view on information about their potential match and how they can take the next steps to adopt.

During this project, we challenged ourselves to self-teach and implement a new technology TypeScript for improved code organization and enhanced type safety. Our team utilized their newly acquired skills in TypeScript, React, and Router to create a seamless and capitivatin user experience to help solve a problem with dogs needing a home.

• Fork this repository to your GitHub account.
• In your forked respository, click the code drop-down menu and copy the SSH key.
• On your local machine, open the terminal and navigate to the location you'd like the repository directory cloned to.
• Once you're there, run git clone [SSH Key] [pawsome-connections] via the command line.
• Run npm install.

• When you're ready to use the app, open the terminal and navigate to the pawesome-connections directory via the terminal.
• In the terminal, use command+t to open a new terminal tab.
• In the new terminal tab, run npm start.
• Once WebPack has compiled the necessary resources, you will see a link within the text of your terminal. You can copy and paste that link into your browser to access a locally-hosted version of this application on your machine.

• Samantha McElhinney GitHub | LinkedIn
  
• Dustin Gouner GitHub | LinkedIn
  
• Sarah Moore GitHub | LinkedIn
  
• Matt Saqueli GitHub | LinkedIn

This project was assigned in the third week of Module 3 at Turing School of Software and Design Front End Web Development program, a four- module, seven-month course focused on preparing students for a career as web developers working with Javascript, HTML, CSS, and the React framework. The application was built over the course of two weeks.

• TypeScript
• React & React Router
• End to end testing using Cypress
• Fetch API
• Git/GitHub/ GitHub project board
• Javascript/ CSS/ HTML
• Error handling for network and user errors
• Utilizing Agile/ Scrum project management
• Responsive design

• User login feature, enabling saving favorites between visits.
• Expand the search functionality to include a wider range of animal types and more specific location criteria.
• Enhance the user experience by incorporating video previews and additional animal photos when clicking on the details page.
• Add animal zodiac signs and incorporate a swiping feature for matching animal's to owners.
• Build our own API using Express.js to have more control over the data and customize it to meet specific needs.
• Improve overall styling