capstone_notes.md

Baseline Feature Requirements:

• All implemented features are Bug Free
• All implemented features are Fully Styled
• All implemented features Have Proper Error Handling
• All implemented features are Dead Link Free

User Auth Requirements:

• Bug Free
• Deadlink Free
• Signup Functionality Completed
• Login Functionality Completed
• Demo User Functionality Completed
• Logout Functionality Completed
• Error Handlings Functionality Completed

Second seeding method

flak shell

>>> from app.seeds.users import seed_users

>>> seed_users()

Project progression

• Planning & Design

  1. Database schema
  2. Wireframe
  3. User stories
  4. Features list (CRUDs)

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• Backend Development

  1. API Documentation
  2. Edit signup forms and auth routes to existing/new files under app/api
  3. Create models referencing the database schema
  4. Confirm relationships in each model are set up correctly
  5. Run migrations
  6. Setup seeders
  7. Seed
  8. Create API routes referencing API documentation
  9. Test routes
  10. Deploy backend to Render using Docker

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• Frontend Development

  1. Redux-state
  2. Redux store (add store.js and other files like reviews.js, session.js, etc.)
  3. Define actions, thunks, and reducers
  4. User-facing routes (frontend routes)
  5. React Components
  6. CSS styling
  7. Deploy full app to to Render using Docker

Summary of Naming Conventions

Entity	Convention	Example
React Component Files	PascalCase	Navbar.js, UserProfile.js
React Component Names	PascalCase	function Navbar() {}
Utility Files	camelCase	formatDate.js
Custom Hooks	camelCase (use prefix)	useFetchData.j
CSS Classes	kebab-case	.user-profile-container
IDs	kebab-case	#user-profile-section
JSON Keys	camelCase	{ "userId": 123 }
Environment Variables	UPPER_SNAKE_CASE	REACT_APP_API_URL
Test Files	camelCase	Navbar.test.js
Index Files	lowercase	index.js

Migration and Models

1. create model files (1b. if there's no migrations folder yet, run 'flask db init')
2. flask db migrate -m 'migration name'
3. add environment conditional in the migration file
4. flask db upgrade
5. create seed files
6. flask seed all