Scrum 2

[FMuir]

Describe (for the project): (1) what you’ve worked on in the previous two weeks, (2) what you’ll be working on in the next two weeks, and (3) where you might have gotten stuck during the last two weeks.

[FMuir]

In the past two weeks I've worked on assessing the different map APIs that we could use, evaluating them on cost, documentation, services provided; from which we determined using Google Maps was the appropriate one to use. Furthermore I then worked to embed into our react application the Google Map itself and initializing it. Some edits to the CSS were also done. For the next two weeks my goal will be to work on implementing the map state with Redux, as well as learning how to embed search bars and have results display on the map. For the past two weeks the biggest sticking point was learning how to use the maps API, and integrate it appropriately into our project and have it display properly.

[hawklu212]

in the past two weeks, I've worked on setting up the search page component formatting, dividing components into subsections folders (Title, TopDiv, BottomDiv, etc), and creating the base components to display on the page. I also created the initial css configuration for the search page, which was later modified.

For the next two weeks, I plan on figuring out how to operate login credential features with express and redux, adjusting our current states to use redux, and deciding with the group how we plan to access and use map data that we request.

The biggest difficulty for me in the past two weeks have been learning how communication between components can be done in React, whether it be child to parent prop callbacks, parent to child prop reference passing, and component to component redux state communications.

[justinjao]

• In the Past Two Weeks - I initialized the application and added the setup for integrating the MaterialUI React Component, emotion styling, and React-Router URL-routing libraries into our application. Using these libraries, I created two page components (login and user creation), to provide working examples of how to use the libraries to setup routing and quickly prototype pages.
• Next Two Weeks - Together with my group, I hope to continue working on adding various React components, integrating redux into the existing components to store state, and solidifying the data models we plan on using for interfacing with the google maps API.
• Challenges of Previous Weeks - While I had used a React Component Library and styling libraries before (not MaterialUI or Emotion), I did have to read up on documentation to figure out how to interface with these libraries. Additionally, learning how to manage state globally through the use of actions and reducers in redux was definitely novel to me, and it took a bit of adjustment to figure out how to work with the global store. After having done the assignment however, I feel more confident about integrating this into the project.