Community Location Explorer
React + Leaflet mapping platform with community-driven reviews, photos, and place information. Built with Firebase authentication and real-time data sync.
Role
Frontend Developer
Tech Stack
Product in one sentence
A community-driven location discovery platform where users can explore places, add and update descriptions, upload photos, write reviews, and contribute to a collaborative geographic database with a clean Material Design interface.
My role
Led frontend development using React + Redux, integrated Firebase/Firestore for real-time data persistence, implemented Google Authentication, and designed an intuitive Material UI interface inspired by Google Maps for seamless place discovery and contribution.
What I did
- •Built React application with Redux state management for predictable data flow across place discovery, reviews, and user contributions.
- •Integrated Firebase Authentication with Google Sign-In, enabling users to securely access and contribute to the platform.
- •Implemented Leaflet-based interactive map with clustering, markers, and map controls for browsing and discovering places across geographic regions.
- •Created Material UI components matching Google Maps design language from 2020, ensuring familiar and intuitive user experience for navigation and place interaction.
- •Built full CRUD operations for places: add new locations, edit descriptions and metadata, upload photos, write and update reviews with timestamps and user attribution.
- •Set up Firestore real-time database with optimized queries for efficient place fetching, filtering by location, and live updates when community members contribute new information.
- •Implemented photo upload functionality with client-side validation and storage integration for user-contributed images.
Impact & Results
Enabled community-driven place discovery with collaborative content.
Users could add new places, write reviews, upload photos, and update information in real-time, creating a living geographic database built by the community.
Provided familiar Google Maps-inspired interface for intuitive navigation.
Material Design components and map interactions matched user expectations from Google Maps, reducing learning curve and enabling immediate productivity.
Achieved real-time data synchronization with Firestore.
Changes made by any user instantly propagated to all other users viewing the map, creating a cohesive and current place database.
Simplified authentication with Google Sign-In integration.
Users could sign in instantly with their Google accounts, eliminating friction and enabling quick participation in the community.
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