EcoEats

EcoEats is a food rescue logistics app built around the Zero Hunger problem space. Donors can list surplus food, receivers can discover and claim it, and the backend evaluates whether a pickup and delivery can happen before the food’s real delivery window closes.

#Shape

The project is split into a Vite React frontend and an Express backend. The interface covers listing food, searching available items, order and dashboard flows, route analysis, and a freshness lab for simulating perishable-food conditions.

#What It Explores

EcoEats treats freshness as an allocation signal instead of a static label. Temperature, humidity, and gas readings can update a food item’s freshness score, safety state, and effective expiry time. Those signals feed into route feasibility and demand-center matching, so urgent food can be sent where it is still useful.

#Build Notes

The backend uses MongoDB through Mongoose for users, food items, demand centers, telemetry imports, and allocation data. It also includes services for freshness scoring, route-aware allocation, IoT telemetry, Google Sheets telemetry import, and demand-center matching. The frontend uses React, React Router, Axios, Leaflet, and Leaflet Routing Machine for the operational surface.