Blink

Incentivizing blood donations and similar campaigns. Using a simple UI, users can quickly find the nearest donation center and local donation campaigns.

Tech Stack

In this project, we use the following tools:

Backend:

• Java Programming Language
• Quarkus Application Framework
• AWS CDK Infrastructure as Code
• Amazon Lex
• AWS Lambda

Frontend:

• JavaScript Programming Language
• JSX + React Web Framework
• Vite Web tooling

How to run this project

Development Environment

Start a GitPod development environment at https://gitpod.io/#github.com/CaravanaCloud/blink

Backend

• Build all modules

mvn install

• Start the API

mvn -f blink-api quarkus:dev

Frontend

• Install dependencies

cd blink-app
yarn install

• Run the app

yarn run dev

Accessing the Application

Navigate to http://localhost:5473

Troubleshooting

If you find issues, check DEBUG.md

Good first tasks

Here's some ideas to get started:

• Improve the documentation and testing
• Start modeling the domain entities (Donation Center, Locations, Questions, Campaign ...)
• Define the API Endpoints (/places, /faq, ...)
• Create the main view (map + chat)
• Create the map view
• Create the chat view
• Create the donation center view
• Create more chat utterances and answers

See more features and ideas on [FEATURES.md]