Requirements
We were given four requirements for this project.
- It needs to have a JavaScript frontend and a Ruby on Rails API backend.
- The frontend must be Object Oriented.
- In the backend, there must be at least one has-many relationship.
- There must be at least 3 AJAX (async) calls from the frontend to the backend.
My Project
For my project at flatiron, I built a single page application where a user can view or add wine by varietal. The object model relationship is a varietal has many wines. I added the Active Model Serializers gem to serialize the data and make it easier to read.
On DOMContentLoaded, I have two functions (one for wines and one for varietals) that send a fetch request to my APIs. The third AJAX call is a post request that creates new wines.
In this project, I struggled the most with appending elements to the page and finding the correct parent elements to make it look the way I want. After a lot of trial and error, everything looks exactly the way I want it to.
