How to build a fast and reliable community mapping tool with GatsbyJS and Firebase

Marc Fehr
10 min readMar 23, 2020

What acrazy time to be alive. Following the coronavirus pandemic, I became aware how crucial a connected community can become once everybody has to stay in self-isolation.

About this project
This community map has initially been developed by Simon Huwiler, who works as a developer for the Zurich editorial team at Tages-Anzeiger, which is lead by Mario Staeuble. The map was built on the TA Interaktiv React Base which was designed and maintained by Kaspar Manz for the Tages-Anzeiger

Marc Fehr

Outdoor enthusiast and full stack web developer specialised in frontend engineering, user experience design, digital storytelling and data visualisation.