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Potify

An app to show off our plants.

See it 👉🏻 here

How to install

Local Database Setup

  • In your terminal

    • run ./scripts/create_db <name of your local database>
    • run ./scripts/populate_db
    • run psql
    • run \connect <name of your local database>
    • run \dt to check the tables are there. There should be only one table named "reviews"
  • Add your COOKIE_SECRET inside .env

  • To start sever run command npm run dev

  • For cypress testing run command npm run test

  • Access locally on localhost:3000

Core User stories

  • As a user, I want to: submit information to your site for anyone to see
  • As a user, I want to: come back to your site later and see what I posted is still there
  • As a user, I want to: be the only person allowed to delete my stuff

Acceptance Criteria

  • Forms for users to sign up and log in
  • A form for users to submit data only accessible to logged in users
  • A page showing all the data
  • A way for logged in users to delete their own data
  • Semantic form elements with correctly associated labels
  • A Postgres database hosted on Heroku
  • Hidden environment variables (i.e. not on GitHub)

Stretch Criteria

  • Tests for all routes
  • A user page that shows everything posted by a single user
  • GitHub Actions CI setup to run your tests when you push

Roles:

  • Scrum Facilitator and UX Design - Oli
  • DevOps - Paolo
  • Quality Assurance - Adam

Learnings

  • Learnt about where the value of the session and the session table lies

  • Feeling more confident with modularisation and routes


  • The importance of Server-side Authentication

  • Understanding the scope of the project and how to break down tasks into managable chunks.

  • Ask for help at the right time

  • Start with a MVP