I have to say that I\u2019m impressed with how well the project seems to be going. I\u2019ll admit that my confidence in the project was a bit up and down at first, at least regarding my own abilities. When first assigned the project, I felt confident that it wouldn\u2019t be too bad and was simple enough that I could have created it by myself as a side project. After the team decided on technologies for frontend, though, my confidence was a little shaken \u2013 I had so much to learn and little time to do so. However, I found some good tutorials and once I got started, it really wasn\u2019t that hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, teamwork has been going smoothly and we have been sticking to our initial team standards pretty closely. Communication and collaboration are consistent, and I feel lucky to have been assigned the teammates I have. Everyone is positive and hard-working, as well as flexible. We all have different experiences and areas of knowledge, and we try to help each other out when we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I took on the \u2018user stuff\u2019 part of our project, meaning things related to user creation, login\/logout, and saved trips. My knowledge about user authentication was nil before the project, so there was a bit of a learning curve. I investigated using Next.JS and Flask libraries to handle authentication, but luckily, I was aware of Firebase Authentication from when I used Firebase services for another class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since our project has a rather tight deadline, it made more sense to me to use an existing service rather than spend a potentially long amount of time building something myself. It took a while to get everything going, but now users can successfully login and logout using their Google account, and that login state is passed to all components of the app. A personal stretch goal is adding more registration options, but it would be wiser to finish other parts of the project first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
User authentication is the most challenging part of the project that I\u2019ve been assigned, so now that it\u2019s up and going, my other responsibilities shouldn\u2019t be a problem. I don\u2019t expect it to take too long to add the \u2018Trip\u2019 component of the project, so I hope that will leave me more time to help refine our CSS styling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My teammates are making excellent progress, too. Currently, you can view experiences on the page, add a new experience, and search experiences by keyword and location. There are still a few kinks to work out, such as adding photos and geolocation, but I have to say that I\u2019m impressed with how quickly things are coming together. Considering we still have about a month left, I\u2019m sure we will finish the requirements on time and might even be able to add in a couple stretch goals. I\u2019m eager to see how the project is going to turn out in the end!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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