ophdub / ideabox

IdeaBox

Our project spec as assigned was to create an webpage that is able to accept user input for idea cards that are stored locally on the user's machine. This project also establishes some basic foundations for understanding interaction with user data in a limited scope. Each card is assigned a quality that is dynamic and can be changed by the user via an upvote/downvote. All cards should also persist on the page through reload. Users should also be able to make changes to each idea card and have the changes show dynamically without a page reload. Other project requirements are listed below.

Project Requirements

Data Model for idea cards:

• An Idea has an id, title, a body, and a quality.
• The id should be a unique identifier.
• title and body are free-form strings.
• quality should be one of the following: “genius”, “plausible”, and “swill.”*
• By default, the idea’s “quality” should default to the lowest setting (i.e. “swill”).*

User Interaction:

• User should be able to see all existing ideas, including the title, body, and quality for each idea.

• Ideas should appear in descending chronological order (with the most recently created idea at the top).

• When a user clicks “Save”:

  • A new idea with the provided title and body should appear in the idea list.
  • The text fields should be cleared and ready to accept a new idea.
  • The page should not reload.
  • The idea should be persisted. It should still be present upon reloading the page.

• Deleting an existing idea:

  • Each idea in the list should have a link or button to “Delete” (or 𝗫).
  • Upon clicking “Delete”, the appropriate idea should be removed from the list.
  • The page should not reload when an idea is deleted.
  • The idea should be removed from localStorage. It should not re-appear on next page load.

• Changing the quality of an idea:

  • Each idea in the list should include an “upvote” and “downvote” button.
  • Clicking upvote on the idea should increase its quality one notch (“swill” → “plausible”, “plausible” → “genius”).
  • Clicking downvote on the idea should decrease its quality one notch (“genius” → “plausible”, “plausible” → “swill”).
  • Incrementing a “genius” idea or decrementing a “swill” idea should have no effect.

• Editing an existing idea:

  • When a user clicks the title or body of an idea in the list, text should become an editable text field, pre-populated with the existing idea title or body.
  • The user should be able to “commit” their changes by pressing “Enter/Return” or by clicking outside of the text field.
  • If the user reloads the page, their edits will be reflected.

• Idea Filtering and Searching:

  • At the top of the idea list, include a text field labeled “Search”.
  • As a user types in the search box, the list of ideas should filter in real time to only display ideas whose title or body include the user’s text.
  • The page should not reload.
  • Clearing the search box should restore all the ideas to the list.

Page Layout:

• On the application’s main page, a user should see:
• Two text boxes for entering the “Title” and “Body” for a new idea.
• “Save” button for committing that idea.

Authors

• Ricardo Viera
• Ophus Wong

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Acknowledgments

• Turing FE Mod 2: Matt A, Thomas L, Matt R
• Turing FE Mod 1: Alex B, Jeff, Natalie, Parker

ideabox's Issues

Research dynamic search functionality solutions

Mobile first layout

Border and placeholder color for inputs

Edits reflected when page reloads regardless if user saves edits

Make idea title text editable on click

JSON data structure

Test for edge cases

Show list of existing idea boxes

Make idea box wrap scrollable

Research localStorage solutions

Add search functionality

Add upvotes and downvotes to ideas

On out of focus or Enter, user text is committed to idea

Consistent and descriptive with IDs and classes

Check HTML formatting

Create HTML for new ideas

Save button to commit user's idea

Check for accessibility

HTML Structure

Page should not reload (localStorage)

Icons change color on hover

Validate responsiveness of layout

jQuery base

Clearing search box should restore all ideas to list

Vote buttons dynamically idea quality

Set default quality to lowest setting

Check CSS formatting

Generate Unique Identifiers

Make ideas deletable with button or icon

Grabbing user strings from input boxes

Explore use cases for flexbox with project

Delete should delete

No reload on delete

Clears text fields after idea is created

Check javaScript formatting

Accepting free form strings

Refactoring JSON and localStorage code

Instead of doing this:
var retrievedObj = localStorage.getItem('myObj');
var parsedObj = JSON.parse('retrievedObj');

Do this:
var parsedObj = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('myObj'));

Another example:
var myObj = localStorage.setItem('key',JSON.stringify('myObj'));

Make header section fixed

Ideas should be removed from localStorage. Should not appear on next page load.

Research unique identifiers solutions

Research JSON solutions

Setting quality on idea cards

Ideas appearing in descending order

Utilizing localStorage

Search hinting that filters the ideas shown

Ideas should persist through reload (localStorage)