hadryan/day26-backendless

Using Backendless to create To Do List

Day 26 HW, Task Management App with Backendless

Explorer Mode

Explorer Mode

• Use fresh clone of webpack
• Refer to notes and redux chat app to set up store and reducer
• Create a web app that requires user to login in order to use
• Once logged in, user should be able to create a new Task with a form
  • A Task should have a name, description, state, important, and due date fields
  • 5 Fields Total
  • Create this table on backendless with all the appropriate constraints and types
• A user should be able to see a list of all their tasks in tabular format. User should NOT be able to see any tasks created by another user

Backendless

• Need to be able to login as a user
• Need to be able to request data from server
• Need to save a record to the Database
• To make any requests to backendless, I will need these 3 things that need to be stored in the app somewhere
  • backendless endpoint URL: http://api.backendless.com/v1/data/task_mgmt
  • application ID: 892747C4-CCC9-E96F-FF91-006B50E61400
  • REST secret key: 30D82F23-700A-52A1-FF7B-1BC275C5F700

Getting Started

• Initial State?
• Events?
• Model(s)?
• User Actions/Inputs will occur on each Views?
• What endpoints will I use to access/persist data?

MVC

MODEL

• user: string noun
• token
• AJAX CALLS
• Task: String
• Started: Boolean
• Important: Boolean
• Due Date: Date and Time
• Description: string
• Complete: Boolean

VIEW

• login view
  • has a username and password input fields, login button
• task page view
  • has task name, description, state, important, due date

CONTROLLER

• when: user clicks login
• what: user sees task page
• need to model out actions effeciently

Currently Working On

• add/hide Important Tag
• make complete button functional