rant-central

Rant Central is where you can go to post anything you want without judgement. This project is a rough clone of the popular discussion site, Reddit. Once an account is created, a user is directed to a posts feed. They have the ability to view other posts, create their own posts, create comments, and delete their own comments. They can also create a profile, list their posts and comments, and update their profile. After their rant they can log out, and log back in any time.

Team Members

Christine Le (@le-christine)
Ramel Haines (@EngineerMel)

Technologies Used

1. HTML
2. CSS
3. JavaScript
4. Fetch AJAX and API
5. API used: http://thesi.generalassemb.ly:8080

General Approach

We reviewed the project requirements and sketched a wireframe. We kept the design simple, and added key features to make interactions as seamless as possible (e.g. dropdown menu to update profile and logout). On Day 1 we planned our week, scheduling most of the time for writing JavaScript functions to carry out Fetch API / AJAX requests. There are two pages, a landing page and a main page that loads all posts. They both read from the same styling and script files.

Day	1	2	3	4
Morning Task	create files, complete HTML/CSS	POST: signup, POST: login, Page redirection	GET: all posts, POST: create profile	15 min stand-up, GET: comments, DELETE: comment
Afternoon Task	Read API schema, Add event listeners	POST: update profile	Refactor HTML and CSS for redundancy	DELETE: post, Fix signup, login, update profile forms
Evening Task		POST: create post Manipulate DOM	POST: create comment, GET: comments, Manipulate DOM	Clean-up, Ad-hoc testing

Unsolved problems

1. Have a separate profile page or window, rather than a sidebar.
2. Improve design and add larger text input for posts and comments.
3. Add time posted to posts.
4. Add responsiveness to the pages.

Planning