App for Efficient Food Delivery

The challenge: We had to handle and process massive amounts of documentation and responses from the service. The documents were in Spanish, which caused even more problems. We encountered the complexity of understanding how the service works. What data should be entered in the fields of both the CSV document and the requested content?

Solution: We got the translation of the documentation and other data into English. Also, we sent multiple requests to the service and analyzed their responses. Having all the information, we have found a way to implement it by using the cut-and-try approach.

Challenge: There is a lack of documentation for Node.js REST API. We had an access-only service with test routines and a GitHub repository with examples.

Solution: To do our work in the best way, we got down to self-education on this matter, which took a while. But resulted in the aggregation of different examples of code into a single one. This worked out!

Challenge: Firstly, Strapi is not flexible. Many microservices and plugins, like socket.io, SendGrid, auth providers, etc., have reduced functionality. Database handling was quite a challenge, too - complex aggregation queries can not be made using standard Strapi methods. And loved bugs, of course. They were spotted using the count method with query parameters (bugs on deep filtering). The version of Strapi that we used during the development was 3.6.6.

Solution: Celadonsoft’s developers have reworked and modified many components and modules. To solve the database issue, we’ve made custom database queries via knex.js using MySQL syntax.