- Preface
- Instructions
- Clone the project
- Features to implement
- Nice To Have (NTH)
Jim and Tom are two friends that have decided to start a blog.
Jim is always full of ideas and involved Tom, who is a programmer always too busy, in the realization of this personal project.
Tom wanted to help his friend, but having little time, he left the project unfinished.
Jim was not discouraged, however, and with one of his ideas he found a way to carry on the project: searching on the web he found you and asked you for help for his blog. He knows that you are not an expert programmer, but with some Tom's indications about how to proceed there will be no problem!
The code of the project is very structured, but it has few features yet. It is ready for testing, but the current ones doesn't make much sense, but they are in any case an excellent basis for creating new ones.
Below you will find listed the features them will want to see implemented in the project. A functional description will be presented which is what the customer, in our case Tom and Jim, want to have on their blog. If you have some experience, or want to get involved, this description may already be enough for you to start the business. On the contrary, if you need help understanding what to do click on the link Implementation specifications and you will find technical details on how to proceed.
First, clone the project repository
git clone https://github.com/learn-by-doing-organization/my-blog-sample.gitThe features to be implemented will lead to the release of version 2.0 of the project.
[database, backend, frontend]
Jim wants to create logical categories to collect the Posts. He would like the Posts to be linked to a category, for now he doesn't mind being able to link them to more than one category, only one is enough.
Tom suggests inserting a new table for the categories and adding a reference to the category in the Post table.
[database, backend, frontend]
Jim heard from a friend, who works in SEO, that tags are very handy, so he wants to have them on his blog too.
Tom suggests creating a new table for the Tags and creating a relationship table with the Post table.
[database, backend, frontend]
Jim would like to involve other friends to write the blog posts, so he needs to indicate in the posts who is the author. At the moment he does not think it is necessary to create the Authors entity, it will be enough to indicate the author.
Tom suggests adding an Author field in the Posts table.
[backend, frontend]
Jim already knows that the blog will be full of posts and he doesn't want them all to be visible on the first page.
Tom suggests inserting pagination to the Index action of the HomeController controller in order to allows to show only 3 posts at a time.
[backend, frontend, testing]
Jim asked Tom to take a look at the site because there seems to be some problems.
Tom realized that he changed the UI of the web project, but he didn't fix the should_retrieve_all_posts test of the Magicianred.LearnByDoing.MyBlog.Web.Tests.Integration project which now reports an error.
Also an error has been reported in retrieving posts by tag. It seems that all posts are always recovered, you have to check and fix the problem.
Tom also asked you to help him check for other bugs. If you find any, please report it on GitHub and, if you want, help solve it.
NTH features are not expected in the release 1.0 of the project, but will likely be implemented in version 2.0.
[frontend]
Jim feels the need, also requested by many blog users, to have a better UI for the use of the blog. Something more "beautiful", "modern" and "captivating".
[frontend + javascript]
Jim visited friends' blog and saw that they use more dynamic frontend visualization techniques. There is no need to reload the page with each click and everything seems smoother, like a Desktop application. Tom explained to Jim that we need to introduce a modern framework to visualize the interface and improve the web api that are currently present in the application.