BeanBook

Inspired by my most favorite person in the world, BeanBook is a coffee tasting journal app that features a fun “conversational form” for submitting entries. The UI is simple and soft; I hoped to invoke the small, quiet moments found in the first sip of late weekend morning coffee, sitting in your favorite corner of your favorite cafe, the steam rising from a fresh, hot cup.

Features

• Track notes on traditional coffee aspects such as: origin, price, producer/roaster, roast date, process, variety, brew method, taste

• Flexibility to include personal notes that do not fit within the above criteria

• Add entries through an intuitive chat

• Search by filter

Challenges

• Speeding up database queries: this is something I’ll continue to work on, but so far I’ve resorted to refining my SQL queries in the GraphQL resolvers as well as database indexing.

• Optimizing filtered search: this was my first time building out search functionality and hope to refactor my crude SQL search query.

• Building a GraphQL server using NextJS API routes.

• Integrating form validation through yup and react-hook-form