Due: Thursday, 23 April

Features

Your web app must:

• utilize a database.,
• be significantly more complex than two or three "CRUD" pages,
• utilize a responsive CSS framework of your choice (Bootstrap, Pure, etc.) so that your web app looks great on mobile devices as well as desktops,
• have at least one UI feature that uses AJAX,
• include both unit tests and end-to-end tests, and
• expose the key data persisted in your apps database via a RESTful web service.

The web service should be documented somewhere obvious in your web app (e.g. a "developers" link on your page footer, or about page).

Make sure all forms, fields, etc. are implemented. Your web app should be completely implemented at the conclusion of this project.

Innovation

One of the more challenging (and hopefully fun) aspects of this project is that you are to come up with your own web application idea. While there are general requirements your application must meet (see details above) you are free to innovate and design a web experience that you are personally interested in and passionate about.

Your app must be original and innovative. It is ok to come up with a "better mousetrap", but don't simply replicate an app that already exists. Substantially improving upon an existing app idea or giving it a novel spin of your own is permissible, provided your "novel spin" is functional (as opposed to simply cosmetic).

You also may take an existing idea and apply it to a new domain, as long as the conversion requires the addition of innovative features. (For example, implementing "Yelp for U-Pick Blueberries" wouldn't make for a good project, because you would be simply copying Yelp and changing the name of some fields.)

To come up with an idea, think about web experiences that frustrate you. What existing sites have missing features (in your opinion)? What web app do you wish somebody would write? Talk to your friends. What apps do they wish somebody would write?

Deployment

You must deploy your app on a cloud-based hosting provider (you can deploy free on Heroku as demonstrated in class).

Deliverables

• Submit a brief description of the app you propose to implement by Thursday, 27 February (no more than one page!).
• Submit a URL to a public Github or Bitbucket repository with your final code.
• Submit a copy of your final presentation in a readable format (e.g., *.pdf, *.pptx, *.key).
• Email me a link to the deployed app.

Lightening Talks

Each student will give a 5 – 8 minute presentation on the evening of Thursday, 23 April. Your talk should consist of a brief overview of the idea underlying your app, the implementation and a live demonstration of the features of your web app.

Grading Rubric

Innovative and sufficiently complex	10
Fully Functional	15
Clean User Interface	15
Fully Responsive	10
AJAX Feature	10
Fully Functional REST API / Documentation	10
Cloud Deployment	10
Testing	10
Final Presentation	10
Total	100

Updated Saturday, 11 April 2020, 9:38 AM