Link to live app: https://erinsul.github.io/word-count-client/

Link to back-end repo: https://github.com/erinsul/word-count-api

What the app does: This app allows users to track progress on a lengthy project (or several), such as reading a novel, writing a thesis paper, writing a novel, etc. Users set a deadline, and the app tells them how much they need to do per day to finish on time.

My development process: I began by setting up the back end, the database tables and controllers and models. I then was very quickly able to link the front and back ends, and establish get/create/update/delete routes for projects. Because I was able to get the basics working quickly, I worked to add some additional authentication for users as well as projects. There are custom methods to check that a user entered an email (with @ character), the password is at least 5 characters, and the deadline entered is in the future, not the past. I also added after the fact an additional column in the database so that users could choose if they wanted to track a project's total pages or words, and that required some restructuring. I also moved most of the math that I originally had the back-end doing to the front end (except calculating the days remaining, because Ruby seemed better at dealing with dates than Javascript). Because the basic functionality was completed early, I also worked hard to try to make the styling neat and organized, incorporating handlebars, including custom styling on buttons, and limited use of bootstrap (only used for a progress bar).

Unsolved problems: No particularly pressing ones. For a more advanced version, though, I considered adding friends for users, and comments on the projects, so that users could post comments encouraging their friends to work harder and meet their goals.

User stories: As a user, I want to sign up. As a user, I want to sign in. As a user, I want to change my password. As a user, I want to sign out. As a user, I want to create a new project with a deadline and select if I'm tracking words or pages. As a user, I want to update my progress on my project. As a user, I want to be able to retrieve the stats for my project—word/page count, remaining, and work-per-day to reach my deadline.

Initial wireframes (created before I actually started working, so there are minor differences with the final product) are in this repo: https://github.com/erinsul/word-count-client/blob/master/wireframe1.JPG https://github.com/erinsul/word-count-client/blob/master/wireframe2.JPG