Product · Web App · PWA

A campus super-app serving ~2,000 UCR students

A real-time campus utility — interactive map, live parking, class schedules, and safety tools — built as an installable PWA.

Project

HighlanderNow

Year

2023

Role

Full-stack engineering, product design

Headline

~2,000 students served

(01) — The problem

UCR students had no single place for real-time parking, campus navigation, and their class schedules.

(02) — The approach

Interactive campus map with real-time parking availability (Leaflet).

User auth and personalized class schedules.

PWA offline support and persistent sync via Firebase + REST APIs.

Built-in campus safety tools.

(03) — The outcome

✦

Served roughly 2,000 students.

✦

Installable, offline-capable progressive web app.

Built with

VueReactNode.jsExpressFirebaseTailwindCSSMongoDBLeaflet MapsVercel

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