Attend Hacks for Hackers hackathon where the goal is to "build creative projects that empower you and your fellow hackers to do more".
We want to help make it easy for newcomers to participate and enjoy hackathons.
The Hackathon Resource Hub provides tutorials, APIs, and user stories for hackathon participants to explore and ultimately interact with.
We used React, Material UI, HTML, and CSS for the frontend, Node.js and Express for the backend, MongoDB and Mongoose for the database.
Our biggest challenges were some merge conflict issues and passing certain data through from the backend to the frontend, but we successfully resolved them and learned a lot from dealing with them.
This is was our first hackathon. It was a new and challenging experience, but our goal was to focus on learning above all else and we did just that.
We gained experience across the stack as we split tasks up so each person could work on each part of the project.
We plan to complete the application and deploy it before our next hackathon.