week8-spotted-gulls

SPOTTED GULL

http://spotted-gull.herokuapp.com/

Team

🐦 @Fweddi 🐦 @RohanSS 🐦 @tloth

Overview

A dating app for gulls! By dating app, we mean a platform where gulls can upload information about themselves, and see others' information. In no way can they get in touch with each other! #Safety.

Built with

• JavaScript, CSS
• PostgresSQL
• Express.js
• Handlebars.js
• Love

Setup 🐡

• git clone!
• npm i!
• get the environment variables from us!
• create test database with a superuser, and add the details to config.env under TEST_DATABASE_URL
• run npm start to start the server
• you're ready to gull!

General gulls, specific gulls, personal gulls

• learn to use Express
• learn to use Handlebars

• have app deployed on heroku
• use CI (Travis)
• use github projects
• have a one table database
• use express to set up server and router
• use express for controllers
• use handlebars to display pages more efficiently
• have tests
• be able to register a new gull
• be able to sea each gull
• be able to sea all gulls at once*
• have reasonable CSS
• error pages

*this we left for Friday, leaving reviewers rather peckish:

Anna 🐟

• testing

Freddie 🐟

• databases

Rohan 🐟

• having fun doing CSS

Stretch gulls

• login and authentication
• comment section under each gull
• fish/chips button (instead of like button)
• messaging platform so gulls can talk to each other
• add squawks to enhance UX

Planning and process

🌊 wireframe! 😅

🌊 user journey ft orange is the new black!

🌊 database schema!

We worked together as a 3, which turned out fine, but took quite a long time.

What we learned

• how to add data using Handlebars
• how Express works
• that you can't have issues automatically assigned to github projects --> we tried using hub in the command line, but prioritised projects for aesthetic pleasure
• main.hbs --> when ing in the .css file, it thinks the starting point is an other folder in the public folder (that doesn't exist) i.e. instead of ../../../public/main.css, it's ../main.css
• in a form, <select>s also need name and id!

Problems encountered

• towards the end of Day 1, right in the middle of creating the database, we realised gulls can't type* (*not scientifically confirmed)
• Travis quietly not working properly in the background
• parsing data to partials