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Fork it!\n2. Create your feature branch: `git checkout -b my-new-feature`\n3. Commit your changes: `git commit -am 'Add some feature'`\n4. Push to the branch: `git push origin my-new-feature`\n5. Submit a pull request :D\n\n## History\n\n- 1.0.0\n  - Migrated codebase from Flask on Python to Express.js on Node.js. Project deployed to https://mdiner.now.sh\n- 0.3.2\n  - Deployed code to Digital Ocean and linked to free domain https://www.mdiner.ml (for a year)\n- 0.3.1\n  - Made UI more responsive to screen sizes\n- 0.3.0\n  - Got inspiration from @wenhoong's School of Information project and implemented caching in MDiningScraper to avoid overloading the MDining server and to improve runtime\n- 0.2.1\n  - Revamped user interface with the help of a friend who did a mockup on Sketch\n- 0.2.0\n  - Succesfully built barebones user interface on Flask and deployed to Heroku\n  - Reverted to non-threading algorithm because Heroku's free tier doesn't support threading well\n- 0.1.1\n  - Experimented with threading to speed up results\n  - Threading drastically reduces runtime when running command line interface locally\n- 0.1.0\n  - Succesfully built a webscraper with Beautiful Soup to search dining halls for desired food and return results in a command line interface\n\n## Buy me a coffee (or bubble tea)\n[![ko-fi](https://www.ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/patrickxchong)\n\n\n## License\n\nThis project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later - see the [COPYING](COPYING) file for details\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpatrickxchong%2Fmdiner","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpatrickxchong%2Fmdiner","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpatrickxchong%2Fmdiner/lists"}