somlo / study-buddy

Study Buddy

Description

A simple web application for students to track homework. Allows users to create accounts, add courses, and input assignments with titles, descriptions, and due dates. Express web application with session management, Passport authentication, and a MongoDB back end. Currently under active development.

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study-buddy's Issues

Add ability to mark assignments as complete

I'd like to do this with AJAX to get some practice with it.

Integrate Promises

Many routes in app.js have ugly deeply nested callbacks. Changing them to use Promises would hopefully make things much more readable.

Change filter to not make server request

Do not need to make a server request to get assignments from a filtered list of courses. Better to just send everything on page load and show/hide as needed with front end JS.

Change storage method of Courses

Currently, Courses are embedded within Users (denormalized) and also have a separate collection, but these do not update together. If there is a reason to have a separate collection for Courses, convert the User collection to store an array of Course ObjectIDs. If there is not, remove Course collection entirely and make them all embedded within Users.

Front end JS for assignments does not work

Script for form validation has been broken since I changed to the Pure.CSS form styles. Should be a quick fix (although I want to change error messages to only appear after some input is given instead of on page load, also make them match style).

Significant front end changes

Note that I do not like the calendar wireframe in the readme, but style is still not near where I want it. Needs more responsive design across the board, better assignment formatting than a color coded list (class name should be included), plus the option to mark as complete. Bit of a vague issue, and will be a long process. Consider learning a front end framework.