Mode

This was many years in the making for me. I had always saved pictures of the clothes I had bought in a virtual wardrobe on my phone then used an editing app to create outfits. Maybe a little strange but it turned out to be really efficient and I soon had friends asking me to do the same for them. It was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to do this, I knew there were apps that existed already but I found them clunky and not very visually appealing. Queue 'Mode' (Swedish word for fashion), a MEAN stack RESTful app, built using my own API and designed using bootstrap and SASS. I initially envisioned it as a Ruby on Rails app however I decided practising my Angular.js would be more beneficial in the current market so made the switch and managed to get an MVP within four days of starting the project. The biggest focus for me was ensuring a slick customer journey and beautiful visuals, I wanted something that myself and my friends would actually want to use. I used them as a testing group and tried different themes and layouts before landing on this. There is still a huge amount of functionality I would like to add, including making it a more social experience, adding sharing buttons and allowing users to follow each other. I'd also like users to be able to link the app to their online receipts (given by bricks and mortar stores like TOPSHOP and Zara now too) so their newly purchased items were automatically added to their wardrobe. Built with - jQuery, JavaScript, ES6, CSS, HTML, BCrypt, TDD, Tokens, Ajax, JSON, Express, Node.js, Mongoose, Mongo, SCSS, Bootstrap, Gulp and Bower.