This past week, I personally worked on wire-framing the web application. After I drew out what I thought would be the minimum set of pages to make the app usable, my team iterated on the design and we came up with a couple more pages to add. After creating these diagrams on draw-io, I researched which technologies we should use for web application. We needed something that everybody team was at least semi-comfortable using, something that had good documentation, and something that was light-weight enough so that we could host the web application locally. After making a combined list of possible options, we were content with React for our Front-end and Express for our backend. I’ve now started to build out our wireframes in React. The routing works, but the data isn’t getting transferred yet.
I feel like our progress is about a week behind schedule. However, we might be able to get this time back, because our team is no longer using PCB, which we allocated a week to learn and design. To get back on track, I’ll put in extra hours to make sure I can meet the web app deadline as best I can.
Next week, I plan to flesh out the front-end of the web application, and start working on the back-end, which will just be a bunch of endpoints my front-end could call. This will need to be done alongside the rest of the team, because the backend models will have to match the models for the rest of the system.
