The Cooper Challenge for CraftAcademy

Author

• Becca Burns
• Alex Saxena

This application was built with the following;

• Front End: React v.16.10.2, Semantic UI, CSS
• Back End: Rails 5.2.3
• Testing frameworks: Cypress, Enzyme
• Deployed at: Netlify and Heroku.

What does the code do?

This repository contains our solution to the client side of the Cooper Challenge. Our respective repositories for the Cooper API built in Rails can be found here.

Getting started

Dependencies

• Yarn
• React
• Enzyme
• Cypress
• Semantic UI for React
• Axios
• Chart.js
• react-chartjs-2

Setup

To test this application you need to fork it to your own GitHub account and clone it to your local workspace.

To install all of the dependencies:

$ yarn install

To run the unit tests:

$ yarn test

To start cypress and run the feature tests:

$ yarn run cy:open

To start the application and run it on your local host:

$ yarn start

Exploring the app online or in local host

To be able to fully appreciate the software, one can log into the app with the following test-credentials:

• Email: [email protected]
• Password: password

Updates/Improvements

Later on, we would like to: Finish implementing the BMI calculator on the client side and add the save data functionality to it.

License

This project is released under the MIT-license.

Acknowledgement

Thank you CraftAcademy for giving us this assignment.

CraftAcademy's Question for the completion of this assignment;

In this project the calculation is performed on the client-side.

What are the pros and cons of client-side processing/calculation ? Pros

• It can, under some circumstances, mean more processing power.
• It makes scaling easier because computational load is not increased with each new user.
• Only increases storage but does not increase computational load on server. Hence, less server-cost. Cons
• Security, some processing should never be done client-side (banking f.ex.).
• Client-side resources can be more of an issue, f.ex. hardware capabilities and software compatibility on client-side.
• Software (calculations) can not be written in any language or framework.
• With server-side computation, more of the debugging is focused on a single target rather than, possibly, multiple client-side scenarios.