FCC Speedrun — Weather App
If you don't know about FCC speedrun then you can read about it here.
This challenge was taken by our team as a project for Chingu Winter Cohort. There were numerous ideas about what to do during our cohort but having a resume full of live projects looked like a better return on investment than others. Although due to our limited availability and skills we decided to bend some rules of this challenge. We decided to pick limited but diverse projects where each project required a different skill. Weather app was our first project.
An easy project for the start helped us gauge teams skills and strengths. We struggled for some time setting up collaboration environment but that did work as a foundation for our next project.
We brainstormed and added dev tasks that we could think about in a tech grooming meeting and picked up tasks in order. JQuery was an easy choice with easy API for dom updates and ajax calls. Styling was done in plain CSS and Heroku was again easiest deployment tool that we could use. Although this was an easy project, we discovered bugs in each others code and that was again distributed.
We learned a lot about team collaboration with this project. On Technical front, this was my first time automating deployments on Heroku after a pull request gets merged.
Here are the live version and GitHub repo links for this project.
Here are post links of other projects in the series
