Bookmark Manager
This week, you will build a web app that stores web bookmarks in a database.
Concepts and skills for the week
Concepts
- Object-relational mappers
- Relationships between data in a database
- SQL, the database query language
- Data encryption
- Rake
- HTML forms
- Web app deployment
Skills
- Designing data relationships using an object-relational mapper
- Designing a database schema
- Manipulating data using the CRUD cycle
- Structuring more complex MVC applications
- Refactoring more complex apps
- Creating user stories
The project
You're going to build a bookmark manager. A bookmark manager is a website to maintain a collection of URLs. You can use it to save a webpage you found useful. You can add tags to the webpages you saved to find them later. You can browse links other users have added.
User stories
As a Makers Student
So I can know whats in the database
I want to see a list of all the links
As a Makers Student
So I can update the database
I want to be able to add new links
As a Makers Student
So I can categorise the database
I want to be able to add tags to links
As a Makers Student
So I can narrow a search
I want to be able to filter links via tags
As a time-pressed user
So that I can quickly go to web sites I regularly visit
I would like to see a list of links on the homepage
As a time-pressed user
So that I can quickly find links on a particular topic
I would like to filter links by tag
As a time-pressed user
So that I can organise my links into different categories for ease of search
I would like to add tags to the links in my bookmark manager
| Objects | Messages |
|---|---|
| links,database | see a list |
| links | add new |
| tags, links | add tags to links |
| tags | filter tags, search |