What it is

This application offers two things:

• A RESTful interface to ResidentAdvisor
• A mobile UI to ResidentAdvisor which uses the interface

The technology

• The API runs on Node.js + Express. Pages are scraped with jsdom and jQuery. A caching layer is provided by MongoDB.
• The mobile UI is built with jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js

Prerequisites

Install npm, node, mongo. Clone the repo locally, then npm install will install all the other dependencies.

Running the app

• Launch mongo (mongod)
• Launch the app with (node app)

Can I haz?

Point your mobile browser to http://radvisor.net and play. WARNING this is still in alpha stage. Suggestions and forks are welcome!