Contractor · Supplier: an equipment marketplace for contractors and suppliers

What it does

• Contractors create requests from an equipment list with a quantity and a needed-by date, then review the bids on each one.
• Accepting a bid rejects the others and closes the request; bids can also be rejected one at a time.
• Suppliers browse open requests from every contractor, place priced bids and track whether each is pending, accepted or rejected.
• Email and password sign-up with strong password rules.

How it's built

• A React front end with function components, hooks and React Router.
• An Express API with Mongoose models for users, requests, bids and equipment, and JWT-based login.
• A starter equipment list is seeded the first time the API connects to an empty database.
• Deployed as one Render service, with Express serving both the API and the built React app.

Architecture

A single Express server handles the API and serves the React app.

1. React client→
2. Express /api→
3. MongoDB