README.md

Product Backlog - Flask Application

Overview

This project has been completed as part of the Udacity Full-Stack Nanodegree. The goal was to create a web application using Flask that implements a 3rd party authorization system (Google OAuth API in this case) and allows users to perform various CRUD operations against a SQL database using an ORM. The app also has a JSON endpoint to serve as an API.

I created a product backlog tool that can be used to save and comment on feature ideas to a database. Often times product teams end up with feature ides strewn about on notepads, Dropbox paper and Slack channels. A single database and expanded upon version of this app could be useful for tracking product ideas and features.

Run this Application

To run this application...

Install Vagrant
Install Virtual Box
Clone the flask_product_backlog repository
CD to vagrant folder, then run vagrant up -> vagrant ssh -> cd vagrant -> cd catalog -> python app.py
The app will run locally on http://0.0.0.0.xip.io:5000/

API Access

Run application as of above
Make GET requests to http://0.0.0.0.xip.io:5000/api/all_ideas for a JSON array of all ideas in the database or http://0.0.0.0.xip.io:5000/api/<str:idea_id>/idea for a JSON object with a specific id

Supporting Materials

Used the Udacity fullstack repo to base the project around https://github.com/udacity/fullstack-nanodegree-vm

Used to structure Google login and logoff commands https://github.com/udacity/ud330/tree/master/Lesson2

Used this API tester document to model test_api.py https://github.com/udacity/APIs/blob/master/Lesson_3/06_Adding%20Features%20to%20your%20Mashup/Solution%20Code/tester.py

Future Work