Scrum report #4

[BarneyShi]

csid: n0k2b

• What did you work on this past iteration
  1. Set up our mongodb with default objects
  2. Made our mongoose schemas
  3. Worked on comment, report, rating, deleting, editing functions.
• What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
  1. One thing I found tricky was a state post was undefined at first because it'd be only set after executing an async function. I had to use a flag loaded to determine whether it had been set by setPost hook. Then I used setLoaded(true) to conditionally render my components. When loaded is false, a loading spinner will be rendered while waiting for fetch to finish.
  2. I realized that I had to drop my db after making changes to mongoose schemas. Otherwise there would be various errors.
  3. Another thing I found was that if I want to get a state value immediately after using useState, it wouldn't be updated because you can only get the new value after a re-render. Good to know this.
• What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration
  1. Make a delete comment function.
  2. Deploy our app to heroku with github actions.

[NaithanB]

CSID: c2o7

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?

   • Made GET requests to get posts from the db for the main page and post detail page and setup loadingSpinners and alerts to display feedback to users
   • Made a POST request to add new posts to the db and handled uploading images as base64 strings
   • Helped integrate Yuxin’s search filter queries with the PostCollection and helped find/solve some bugs in the backend.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?

   • The transfer time for images is larger than I anticipated.

3. What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?

   • I plan to find more strategies to reduce the image load time and add a “see more posts” button to the PostCollection to limit the number of posts that are loaded at once.

[parksj23]

csid: s7j1b

1. What I worked on this past iteration (2 weeks): I worked on registering and logging users with the use of the MongoDB database. I also worked on user authentication using JSON web tokens (JWTs) and learned how to protect certain routes/functions on the website.

2. Major issues/challenges I ran into: JWTs were new to me so it took a long time to feel like I understood them enough to start implementing them. I also ran into issues trying to access the token when trying to authenticate the user as well as the current user (hen trying to add conditional rendering to my front-end, but I was able to figure out workarounds for these problems.

3. What I plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks): I plan to ensure that the jwt login/user authentication methods I have now are safe and do not expose user info. Other things I may add are: making a user account page that will show logged-in users their posts or ability to edit their information; adding an admin user; integrating other ways of logging in (e.g. Facebook, Google); a more robust password strength validator; a 'Forgot Password' feature; refresh tokens that will minimize the number of times a user has to login.

[tyxxxx]

CSID: f0z1b

What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)? Made GET requests to filter posts according to location, price, category and users. (List of posts by a single user, List of posts filtered by price/location when searching)

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? There was a bug in the location filtering. And learning how to get data also took me some time

What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)? I plan to complete the search filtering by typing words / terms directly into the search box