AutoMarket Watch
A full-stack automotive market tracking platform for enthusiasts to track vehicle valuations, curate watchlists, and connect with collectors.
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The Problem
Car enthusiasts need a single place to track real-time vehicle valuations, maintain a personal watchlist, and discover what other collectors are following.
The Solution
Built a MERN-style app with a live NHTSA market feed, JWT auth, per-user MongoDB watchlists, CarQuery trim details, public profiles, a community page, and likes — evolved across five development phases from React UI to a full authenticated API.
Technical Challenges
- —Integrating NHTSA vPIC, CarQuery, and IMAGIN.studio APIs into a cohesive market feed
- —Implementing JWT authentication with persistent sessions via AuthContext
- —Scoping watchlist CRUD and likes per user with a DAL over MongoDB Atlas
- —Building public profiles and a community page on top of private watchlist data
- —Proxying trim-level data through the Express backend for secure API access