About
I’m Aaron, an incoming CS student at Texas State University with a focus on front-end web development and building clean, practical solutions. Right now I’m creating Food4U, a web app that uses your location to suggest local restaurants you might not find otherwise. I’m excited to grow by developing bigger, more ambitious side projects, contributing to open source, and landing internships that push my skills further. When I’m not coding, you’ll find me in the gym, exploring the city, or diving into new frameworks to sharpen my skills.
Projects
Food4U
A web app that helps users discover new restaurants by entering cuisine, budget, and location, then randomly picks a matching spot. Built entirely with HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, it filters a local restaurant dataset based on user input. I explored using a live API but pivoted to a local dataset to avoid costs — this taught me practical trade-offs and gave me experience with dynamic data filtering and user interaction in pure JS. It’s currently hosted on GitHub Pages — and you can see the source code on GitHub. I plan to expand it to cover restaurants anywhere and refine the search logic.
WeatherSnap (Working Title)
A weather app that auto-detects your location, fetches a multi-day forecast, and suggests what to wear based on conditions. Built to practice API integration, async JS, and dynamic UI with React.
MovieFinder+ (Working Title)
A web app to search for movies, filter by genre, see ratings, and add picks to a personal watchlist with local storage. I’m using React and the OMDB API to sharpen my front-end and API handling skills.
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