Background: The Sports App **Important**

It started with an idea to build an app thats similar to Meetup, but specifically for sports and outdoor activities. I imagined an app that would show you groups nearby that want to go for a hike, a bike ride, or maybe even a ski trip. You could also create your own groups so that others could join your plans. The posts here will provide insight into my process of building this app and all of the challenges, successes, and failures that I find along the way.

The app uses React for the front-end client and Ruby on Rails for the back-end. I'll provide screenshots of code and of the app itself as I progress.

**IMPORTANT**

Since I'm starting this blog after I've already been working on the app for a few weeks, I missed out on the chance to talk about the very early stages. As of this post I've already created the following features:

-A Rails API with a 'group' resource.

-Each group needs a sport, city, state, date, and time.

-Full CRUD functionality for groups

-A React Client with user authentication provided by General Assembly

-The ability to create a new group listing

-The ability to list all existing groups in the Groups component

-The ability to view a single group in the Group component

-A sidebar component with nav buttons for Groups view and Create Group

-Very basic styling

Feedback and constructive criticism is always appreciated and thanks for following along!

A sample of the code to come!