fullchee / what-i-did-today-backend

Immediate TODOs

• add something to the database from a front end app
  • setup the add path
  • connect to the db
  • front end
  • try it on heroku
• password login

Why

• be a better software developer
• I want to quantify how well I'm doing
• I want to keep track of things
  • expand beyond the capabilities of my company's issue tracking software

What

• Postgres
  • be able to do a ton of queries on the data
  • Heroku doesn't save SQLite
• Node.js
  • it's what I know

MIT (Most Important Tasks for today)

• 1-3 MIT (for the day)
• pick from the unfinished list
  • only in these states: (not started, working)
• sort by earliest to latest
• goal: get to this status by today
• why didn't you complete yesterday's MIT?
  • what got in the way?

Weekly reporting

• picked up # defects, user stories
• these items are in DCUT
• these items are completed
• assign these items to the next iteration
  • be able to provide the list of iterations
• visualizations, graphs, charts
  • figure out what metrics I want to measure

Auditing

• id: status on date
  • title if's a semantically meaningless UUID)

Setup

Database

1. Install postgres

   1. sudo apt-get install postgresql

2. psql postgres

3. Create a new role

   CREATE ROLE api_user WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'password';
   ALTER ROLE api_user CREATEDB;
   

4. Exit \q

5. Create a file called .env in the repo directory.

Reference that I used for setting up my PSQL

https://www.taniarascia.com/node-express-postgresql-heroku/#set-up-postgresql-database

DB_USER=api_user
DB_PASSWORD=password
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=5432
DB_DATABASE=whatidid

Possible new tables

• BuildBreaks
• VerifyFailed

Nice to have

• given an ID, go to RTC and scrape & auto fill the results
  • some automation tool
  • https://www.maketecheasier.com/extensions-automating-repetitive-browsing-tasks/
• https://www.taniarascia.com/node-express-postgresql-heroku/s