README

Sweaterweather

My project for module 3 at Flatiron is a single page application (SPA) using a Ruby on Rails backend API. The frontend was designed using vanilla JavaScript/HTML/CSS. This project integrates everything I learned in module 3 including the ability to:

Design and architect features across frontend and backend
Communicate and collaborate in a technical environment
Build and iterate on a project MVP
Debug issues in small- to medium-sized projects
Integrate JavaScript and Rails

Sweaterweather was inspirired by the application Pinterest. This app focuses on the Autumn season and allows users to store different items that they are interested in into a collection board that they create and name as they desire.

User Stories

User can login or create new registration
User can browse items from 4 different categories using the navigation bar
User can pin item and create a new collection board
User can add as many items to one collection board as they want or create a new collection board
User can rename collection board
User can delete collection board

How to play

You must clone the frontend to this project as well!!

https://github.com/ChristyTropila/Project-Three-Frontend

Clone both repos to your local computer
CD into backend repo and and open up a text editor of your choice
In terminal run the following commands
bundle install -install gems
rails db:migrate -add migrations to data tables
rails db:seed -seed the program with seeded data
rails s -p 5000 start up the server
open up the frontend repo and open up the index.html file in your browser
Read the introduction, create a new user, and enjoy the process!

Stack and Gems used

Visual Studio Code
PostgresSQL
Rails as an API
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
ActiveRecord
Cloudinary(photo upload)
Google Fonts
rack-cors
active_model_serializers

Video demonstration below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n6ZczMmwVo&t=110s&ab_channel=ChristyTropila