📅 2025-05-13 — Session: Developed and Enhanced Flask Web Application
🕒 17:55–18:25
🏷️ Labels: Flask, Web Development, Onboarding, Collaboration, Education
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance a web application to support multiple courses, improve user navigation, and ensure robust routing in a Flask-based environment.
Key Activities
- Developed a strategic plan to modify the app for supporting multiple courses, including backend and frontend adjustments.
- Proposed a dedicated course homepage with a course selector to enhance user navigation.
- Configured Flask routes to serve HTML templates correctly, addressing ‘Not Found’ errors.
- Resolved an AssertionError in Flask by renaming duplicate route handler names.
- Explored solutions for accessing Flask routes directly as static files.
- Proposed an improved homepage design in HTML and CSS for a collaborative educational environment.
- Outlined an onboarding strategy for collaborative project contributions, including documentation structure.
- Drafted an initial README.md for an interactive query platform.
Achievements
- Established a clear plan for app scaling and homepage enhancement.
- Solved routing issues in Flask, improving application robustness.
- Created a welcoming README.md and onboarding strategy to facilitate collaboration.
Pending Tasks
- Implement the proposed homepage design and course selector.
- Finalize and integrate the onboarding strategy and README.md into the project.