https://thawing-brook-7581.herokuapp.com/

Why are we doing this?

This is a formative assessment. That means that the goal of the assessment is for you (and the instructors) to find whatever gaps you may have so you can take the necessary steps to improve.

Please close all open browser tabs, terminal windows and close any projects that are open in your text editor.

And remember, you've had a lot of exposure to these concepts, so if you forget something try to reason through it - throw some log statements in, take a quick break and come back etc... Ideally this reflects what you are like when you are in a normal working state, so if you are nervous, consider taking a nice walk around the block or looking at cat videos before you start :)

In order to really gauge where you are, please restrict your internet access to these sites (and even then try to really wrestle with a problem for a while before consulting):

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
• https://github.com/Automattic/monk
• http://expressjs.com/
• https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/

Please do not directly reference any other code. If you get totally stuck on something, that's OK! That's the whole point - to find the weak spots. So an unfinished app that you learn a lot from is better than copy/pasting code from other projects or tutorials.

Before you rush in, scan this whole document. Look at the designs. Read through the stories. Take your time.

Please complete the following stories in order and complete each one before moving onto the next.

You are building a Zine for hipsters. Your zine is all about beauty - so the app has to look like the designs (yes, that means CSS).

1. Fork and clone this repository
2. Create an express app (use "." to create the app in this folder)
3. Don't forget to ignore node_modules from git.
4. Commit and push and open a pull request

Articles have:

• A title
• A background image URL
• A boolean flag indicating whether the background image has dark colors (used for styling the index and show page)
• An excerpt (which shows up on the homepage)
• A body (which shows up on the show page)

Be sure to style this page before moving on (including the form)!!

NOTES:

• see https://unsplash.com/ for awesome images to add
• see http://hipsum.co/ for sample text
• the body background image is called congruent_outline.png and is in this repo
• the main header background image is https://unsplash.imgix.net/photo-1429198739803-7db875882052?dpr=2&fit=crop&fm=jpg&h=1575&q=75&w=1050

Get the app up and running on Heroku

After each story from here on out, deploy your changes to Heroku

Each article shows:

• The title of the article
  • If the background image is dark, the title should appear in white
  • If the background image is not dark, the title should appear in black
• The background image should display behind the title
  • If the background image is blank, pick a nice pattern from http://subtlepatterns.com/ to use as the background
• The excerpt of the article

Articles should appear with the most recent article at the top.

Don't forget to style this page before moving on :)

On the index page, clicking on the title should bring you to the show page.

From anywhere in the site, clicking on "Zine" in the heading should bring you to the home page.

On the show page, in the article heading, users should see an edit link which brings them to the pre-filled form.

From the edit screen, users can delete an article.

On both the new/create and edit/update forms, users must enter the:

• title
• excerpt
• body

When errors occur, show an unordered list of errors in Red, along with the text:

"Please correct the errors below"

Go through each story - really take some time to read through them, click around in your app and really study the designs to make sure that yours match.

Fill out the writeup in students.galvanize.com that asks about where your weaknesses were / where you got stuck.