Create sign-up page

[rowlandcoping]

The project needs a multi-stage sign-in process.

TASKS:

• design a process to manage the sign in process (complete)
• create elements to display different form fields (complete)
• build logic to create new user in database (complete)
• progress sign-in to suggest uploading an image (complete)
• build image handling process with Cloudinary (complete)
• include process to delete images from Cloudinary when they are updated (complete)
• test, review and re-factor the entire sign-up process
• style the sign-up pages appropriately.

[rowlandcoping]

Created these issues and task lists, and identified the ones I have already completed.

NB to date I have already completed the following tasks.:

• built the sign up page using Javascript to show and hide form elements to create staged sign-up process.
• built mechanism to add interests/skills/experiences in a user friendly and engaging manner, using Javascript
• built scripts to write this data to the database.
• created page where new user is encouraged to upload an image.
• researched Cloudinary and imported all the appropriate libraries

[rowlandcoping]

Added the image handling process, but need to include code to delete files from Cloudinary when they are updated.

I'd update and add after looking into this I worked out how to do it near instantaneously.

[rowlandcoping]

In view of the unwieldyness of IDs for MongoDB and the desire to have clean and readable urls, I built the code to create a user slug on sign-in. This code can easily be applied to dreams as well once I get on to them.

Note: I have actually reverted to using IDs relating to session data for users, because if the user edited their name the slug changes and the session became invalid. the same holds true for the e-mail address. Since the _id is the only immutable object, I've stuck with that regardless of any minor difficulties it poses! I think the slug generation approach will be more appropriate for data not passed by session, so dreams or related modules can use this slug functionality in the url just for a better user experience. There is actually zero reason to pass user data via GET in a url since my user identification is all based on session data, however there is little point in removing the functionlaity now it's been created!

[rowlandcoping]

Further to testing and feedback from my mentor, the signup page has been condensed into a single screen with predefined base categories, with the top ten appearing in a clickable grid.

This can then be extended to the dream creation process and the user and dream edit process.