ParkMe

ParkMe is a responsive parking space finder based on Node.js, Express and Angular -- Live-DEMO

Features

• Find the current user location and show it on a beautiful map
• Find the nearest parking space (Deutsche Bahn Parkraum API)
• Show route and directions to a selected parking space
• Show additional information like free spaces and price
• Show current departures of a selected station (Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API)
• A Node.js/Express server for both, App and APIs

Author

• Jan-Henrich Mattfeld

Prerequisites

Download and install the most recent Node.js LTS release from https://nodejs.org.

Make sure node and npm are in your path and you have installed Bower globally via npm install -g bower.

Installation

1. npm install (This loads all third party modules)
2. bower install (This loads all third party frontend libraries)

Folder Overview

• server: contains the server-side code
• client: contains all client-side files that will be served by the web server
• node_modules: contains all third party dependencies

APIs

ParkMe uses APIs for which you have to register to get an access key:

1. Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan API
2. MapBox Tiles and Marker

Start Up

• node . starts the application
• npm start starts the application with nodemon (automatic restart when files are changed)
• http://localhost:1337 shows the app

Routes

• / serves client/index.html
• /departures/get?station_id=id retrieves the departures of a station.

Troubleshooting

After a pull re-run npm install and bower install to get new dependencies.