I decided to create a simple MVC CRUD To-do List App using ActiveRecord with Sinatra. I always like to test my skills with any language by creating a simple application such as a to-do list app. The layout of the app is a little lacking on the user experience side but I really wanted to practice routing with Sinatra, though this app could have definitely been a one page app which was the hardest part for me to let go.
The Challenge
The most challenging part of this project was trying to incorporate routing throughout the application since a to-do list app is more like a one page application. This caused me to rebuild several parts of the app after realizing the flow of the app just wasn’t there. Originally I had separate pages for editing and deleting the to-do but it just seemed off to me to go to two different pages for each task so I incorporated them both into one page.
The Take Away
I think this project really taught me the importance of scoping and laying out the whole project before jumping in and coding everything. If I just spent an hour really laying the whole project out I think everything would have went much smoother in the long run.