Sprint 8 meetings - PatrickJosephEns/xeroProject GitHub Wiki

Final Meeting:

Patrick: This last Sprint I was able to wrap up everything I have done over the course of the project. I have made the home page more 'homely' and re applied for our free xero developer api. Reflecting on the whole project I am really happy with how I have performed and everything I have learnt. My main area of learning has been to do with react. I have really enjoyed using this again and this time getting a greater understanding of how to create a site using react. It has even inspired me to create my own personal react project and continue my learning outside of this course. Also using an api and fetching from this is finally becoming clear to me, I have used them in other papers but being left on my own has finally forced me to learn how it all works. As of now I have done everything in this repo which is a good portion of the project. After getting my feet in the first few week I have been consistently working on the project and have been able to add features every sprint. One thing I would change if I could do this project again would be to learn more about dotnet. Most of the dotnet in the project I was able to get from the xero documentation. However I was still able to see how everything worked and I had to adjust the dotnet code to meet the requirements of our project. At first I was dubious about this project and was not looking forward to it. However, now I have done the project I feel it has been the best thing for me. I have had to learn everything myself and figure out how to implement which has been very good for me instead of relying on my peers.

Anthony: This last sprint was spent still trying to get the app deployed which is becoming incredibly frustrating. I had the frontend of the app deployed previously but it couldn't fetch any of the data from the backend. I tried multiple different methods trying to get it to work but I don't think I have enough of an understanding into how it works to quite figure it out. I tried getting help from people that have done something similar but still no success. I then moved to starting it again and have 2 separate instances of project one the Linux server, one of the backend and one for the frontend. I worked on this but once again ran into errors that wouldn't allow of the app to be deployed. I am quite disappointed how the overall project has gone for me up to this last sprint as I haven't managed to get any of my personal tasks fully completed. I think that I was lacking an understanding into how to deploy the project and a few other problems like getting sick put me behind trying to catch up. I tried many different methods in order to get it to work but with no success. I think next time I would try and get a more base understanding on the project itself such as dotnet and react before moving onto tasks like deploying it as I think that there would be a better chance of getting some more of the assigned tasks done. Another thing I probably would have done was move onto another task like connecting an sql database for the users instead of spending such a long time stalled on one task.