Initial Ideas

Project Inspiration

Even though we had the option of adding onto our previous trimester project we decided to make a new project idea so that each of our team members would be equally as interested
We multiple ideas including a classroom tool and quiz platform
Ultimately we decided we wanted to do something more lighthearted and social focused which is how we settled on Friendlee, a friend finding app designed similar to a mainstream dating app where computer science enthusiasts and others alike are able to find friends

When first designing our wireframe we kept with our lighthearted theme and decided on different shades of pink and white as our color pallete
On the front page we wanted to have a quotes API that displyed different friendship quotes and different friendship characteristics
We also wanted a page where different friends in the database are displayed after being collected through the sign up page

We realized early on that we needed a fourth component so that each of us would have a task so we also decided to create a notes part of the person database to store pros and cons of each person in our database
We were able to get our frontend to look nice easily through a jekyll theme and some html however we struggled with connecting the frontend features to the backend
We had a lot of trouble with JWT and security, a concept that was new to us
We also ran into a big issue with all of us trying to complete all of our parts at once, leading to many errors building up.

We were able to make the front page very similar to what we had planned with a quotes API and friendship characteristics
We have a sign up and login page that records the person characteristics and notes into a database
We also included a page with cards displaying each person in the database

time management
Debugging and problem solving (not trying to fix everything at once which led us to more and more errors)
Cementing our knowledge on JWT and its implimentations