So for a certificate I am trying to earn, one of the projects is to write an exercise tracking api. So I wrote one with flask. it’s deployed on pythonanywhere here.
I created a simple User Interface to simulate requests that gives feedback to the user. Also I did double duty on form validation by using the html client side validation and doing some of my own on the server side. I think I could refine the server side validation some. Also I’m looking to into making it more secure. Right now, I think it’s pretty basic and not something I would use as a real service. But I’m actually pretty stoked that I did this and hope to include it in my portfolio. I also have to go put in some proper documentation, right now it is pretty bad/ practically non existent.
Hi @zberwaldt nicely done! Coming from the graphic and ux world I have some suggestions to make your nice programm a little bit more comfortable for ordinary users. In fact, with some slight changes in the user flow this app is easily changed in a deployable app for a school or the like.
First I drawed a finite state machine as I learned from @zedshaw . What will the userflow be?
Thanks for the feedback! Originally the project spec was only for developing the back end, which is why I did not really develop much of a front end. It was only a means to interact with the back-end on the most basic level, instead of developing a full CRUD application.
The project was so I can earn a Microservice and API certificate.
But since you’ve brought it up. This is probably a good opportunity for me to get up to speed with Vue, so I can develop a separate front-end that can interface with this back-end. From what I can tell, people develop an application as two separate parts. The front-end as MVVM, like Angular, React, or Vue. Then a back-end in Node, Python, etc. And! the front-end could be another portfolio piece, too.
Rather than developing a web application as a single cohesive unit. I’m probably interpreting that wrong. But that’s what it seems to be to me.
Anyways, Thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate it.
Yes, you can bring it to a hole new level with front-end stuff like Angular or Vue, but most of the time this is not really neccessary. In this case it would be only a matter of some different views and one or two templates more to create a whole new user experience. I think you can distinguish yourself from other folks when you clearly display that you give some thoughts on all aspects of the application. I know that kind of people is really sought after.
