Little Shop - Coupons

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Abstract:

The application is designed to simulate an admin portal for a online store. The user is able to see a list of all the merchants, update their info, view their listed items, delete the listings, and view their store coupons.

Installation Instructions:

1. Clone the repo
2. In the terminal cd into the project directory
3. Run open index.html in the terminal

Preview of App:

Context:

This project is built off of an already existing repo, similar to one from a previous group project. The task was to add coupon functionality to the online store.

Contributors:

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Learning Goals:

• Write migrations to create tables and relationships between tables
• Implement CRUD functionality for a resource
• Use MVC to organize code effectively, limiting the amount of logic included in serializers and controllers
• Use built-in ActiveRecord methods to join tables of data, make calculations, and group data based on one or more attributes
• Write model tests that fully cover the data logic of the application
• Write request tests that fully cover the functionality of the application
• Display data for users in a frontend application by targeting DOM elements

Wins + Challenges:

Wins:

1. Working with a front-end that pulled data from an API
2. Styling the front-end coupons view
3. Getting the application functionality up and running
   

Challenges:

1. Createing migrations
2. Working out the different error codes for each different create sad path
3. Diving into a front-end after not working in JavaScript in a long while
4. Figuring out what goes where and how much logic is too much logic in the controller