Notes and guidance

Project recommendations

Many apps you interact with daily can provide inspiration for this project as they are full-stack CRUD apps!

Lean towards building an app that manages or tracks things of personal interest to you.

Avoid things like games, portfolio sites, marketing, or e-commerce sites.

Getting started

Here are some quick tips to get your project started:

• Discuss your app idea with an instructor to get feedback before you dive too deep into planning.
• Keep it simple. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) functionality that looks great and works well is better than extra functionality added to an app without polish.
• Implementing features and functionality on the front-end may take longer than you initially hoped. This cannot be stressed enough: keep it simple and focus on basic functionality first before you explore more advanced features.
• Prioritize and implement user stories step-by-step, one at a time. Develop features in a way that allows you to test as you go - try your best to follow the flow of data through your app.
• When adding functionality to your back-end application, test it using Postman or a similar tool before building the UI for that feature on in your front-end app.
• Theme your app to give it a personal touch.
• Regularly review the project requirements to ensure you’re on track to pass the project. A printable version of the project requirements can be found here.
• Add comments to your code where it makes sense to do so. Most code is self-documenting, and you shouldn’t add comments explaining the obvious. Ideally, comments should explain the why of code where it’s necessary.

Project assistance

Your instructor team will provide guidelines for reaching out for help during the project.

Presentation ideas

You will have a maximum of 5 minutes to present your project. While the structure and content of your presentation are ultimately up to you, here are some potential ideas and topics to cover:

• Discuss the app. Including details about why you chose the app is a nice touch.
• Use the app! Demo its features, such as CRUD.
• Briefly show off something unique in your code or a piece of code you’re particularly proud of.
• Share your experience with the project - what was challenging, what did you gain from building this project?