GroupUp - A group project manager

Inspiration

With COVID-19 keeping everyone indoors, teachers and students find it exceptionally difficult to have group projects. With this web-app, I hope to open opportunities for these group projects.

What it does

This group project manager allows users to create accounts, projects for those accounts, and tasks for each project. Users can add other registered users so that any user added to a particular project is able to add and update tasks.

How it was built

This application uses the following tools and languages:

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• React
• Redux Toolkit
• Node.js (Express)
• MongoDB

Challenges I ran into

Because I wasn't comfortable with using MongoDB, setting up the api so that the React frontend could communicate to the database posed the biggest challenge. This required a lot of research and bug fixing.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• having a better understanding of React components, states, global states (redux)
• creating an api with Express
• creating a full-stack application with a frontend that communicates with a backend database

What I learned

The MERN stack and various skills to qualify as a full stack developer.