robinsr / TinyBudget

Don't have a lot of money? Then you'll probably want to know where it's all going. Tiny Budget can help!

Don't have a lot of money? Then you'll probably want to know where it's all going. Tiny Budget can help!

See the demo: http://robinsr-tiny-budget.herokuapp.com/

This project is a demonstration purely for prospective employers

This app demonstrates my ability to:

• Clearly visualize a product and execute that vision (in this case a web app)
• Create an organized user interface
• Code an express server including:
  • Using the MVC pattern
  • Effective use of middleware
  • Effective use of third-party services (such as MongoLabs)
  • Effective use of tests (unit tests for controllers)
• Code a single page, cross-browser app using knockout
• Use libraries:
  • jQuery
  • Moment
  • Async
• Understand app deployment (using heroku);
• Understand source control

Caveats

This app is not perfect

• The API to the server should be organized around resources using various HTTP actions to manipulate them, not just GET
• Data sent to server is encoded in the url's querystring instead of in the request body (including session tokens and passwords, exposing confidential user information)
• The client app isn't cleanly organized and doesn't make effective use of common javascript patterns. In the future I would like to
  • Implement better control flow patterns
  • Integrate a validation library
  • Break up the large viewmodel into smaller, more maintainable viewmodels
• Sessions are not persisted client-side; reloading the page forces another login