📅 2025-05-13 — Session: Scaling App for Multiple Courses
🕒 17:55–18:25
🏷️ Labels: Web Development, Flask, App Scaling, Collaboration, Onboarding, Documentation
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance a web application to support multiple courses, improve user navigation, and resolve existing routing issues.
Key Activities
- Developed a strategic plan for modifying the app to support multiple courses, including backend adjustments and frontend changes.
- Proposed a dedicated course homepage with a course selector to enhance navigation.
- Configured Flask routes to serve HTML templates and resolved an AssertionError due to duplicate route handler names.
- Addressed issues related to Flask URL routing and static file access.
- Proposed an improved homepage design using HTML and CSS for a community-focused interface.
- Outlined an onboarding strategy for collaborative project contributions, including a minimum viable documentation structure.
- Drafted an initial README.md for an interactive query platform designed for educational collaboration.
Achievements
- Created a comprehensive plan for app scaling and navigation improvements.
- Resolved routing and error handling issues in Flask.
- Developed templates and documentation to support collaborative contributions.
Pending Tasks
- Implement the proposed course homepage and onboarding strategy.
- Finalize and deploy the improved homepage design.
- Continue refining the README.md for the interactive platform.