About

42 Dates is a dating app I built for a project called Matcha at Hive Helsinki Coding School. The app is built with React on Next.js create-next-app. Backend is using Node and Express with MariaDB database. Userbase has about 3800 dummy users created using Random User Generator API and Node script, so unfortunately this is not the place to find real love.

The app has basic functionality including dating profile, suggested matches based on preferences, profile search, instant notifications, and instant messaging between matched users. Users are located using Geolocation API and it falls back on IP location with Fast-geoip library. You're free to try it out, but it requires registration with working email address. Unfortunately matches cannot be simulated unless you create two users that like each other. The accounts can be removed after testing.

Technologies

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Typescript
  • Node
  • Express
  • MariaDB
  • Socket.io
  • JSON web tokens
  • Axios
  • Geolocation API
  • Random User Generator API
  • Docker

Next.js is used mainly as a create-react-app replacement. No server-side rendering is used for this project and API is done with Node and Express. API authentication is done with JSON web tokens. Axios interceptor tries to refresh access tokens automatically if response status is 401. Socket.io is used for handling websocket connections for notifications and instant messaging.

Development environment runs in Docker containers and the Docker files are included in the repository.

The project can be found in Github here: https://github.com/Jukkay/matcha