Belgium has a long tradition of beer making. According to Wikipedia, the country counts over 1700 beers of various styles including Trappist, Abbey, Saisons, Lambic, Gueuze, Fruit Beers, White, Double, Triple, Quadruple, etc.
I thought it would be fun to build an app that lets users search and explore this list in different ways: by name, style, brewery, alcohol content, etc. I learned a ton: not only building the application, but also using it!
Running the Application
I deployed the application on Heroku. Click here to run it.
Architecture Highlights
Belgian Beer explorer is a single page application built with React and Bootstrap. The back-end is built with Node.js and Express: it consists of a simple REST service that exposes the data stored in a Postgres database.
If you are new to React and are looking for a step-by-step walkthrough, take a look at the Employee Directory application I documented here and here.
Source Code
The source code is available in this GitHub repository. It includes the database based on the Wikipedia list and exported in .sql format.
