This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Brian Douglas
Last week's Open Source Friday featured Ryan McHenry from Sharing Excess project. Sharing Access, a non profit based in West Philly, and working on converting the surplus (5 million pounds) food that is often thrown out or goes to waste in one way or another and delivering that to local nonprofits and food pantries.
They are approaching this problem in a unique way using open source using React to managing the operations in a PWA.
The non-profit ecosystem in the USA is a $390 billion (based on 2016 numbers), but despite number operations and technical help can be lacking in the web interactions.
If you are interested in joining the cause through open source contributions, consider reaching out and checking out their issues and discord.
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Sharing Excess Food Rescue Web Application
Sharing Excess Food Rescue Web Application
Contributors
Ryan McHenry
Luke Shin
Abdullah Dawud
Sam Nguyen
Armando Parra
Tech Stack 🤖
The Rescue Web App is built using React, Redux, and Sass on the frontend, and Google Cloud Platform Firebase on the backend.
React Hooks and Redux Toolkit provide a lightweight and scalable client side app, and Firebase bundles authentication, storage, and API services for a minimal management solution.
This project was created using Create React App.
Getting Started 🏁
* In order to run the application locally, you'll need node and npm installed on your computer.
* You'll also need to request environment files from an admin to connect to the Firebase API.
- Open the terminal on your computer.
- Clone this git repo wherever you want the code to live in your file system by running
git clone git@github.com:sharingexcess/rescue.git
- Move into the newly cloned directory by running
cd rescue
- …
If you are looking for a list of more projects looking for contribution, check out our Open Source Friday repo recommendations.
Made a GitHub list of all the projects listed in the replies. Look forward to chatting with you all. github.com/stars/bdougie/…13:34 PM - 28 Jan 2022
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Brian Douglas

Brian Douglas | Sciencx (2022-02-03T19:56:40+00:00) Sharing excess food with OSS and React. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2022/02/03/sharing-excess-food-with-oss-and-react/
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