Introduction to Web Applications Engineering

Project specification

• Technological stack:
  • Git
  • PostgreSQL
  • PHP
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • JQuery
• Account for DB on Heroku is created
• No templates and frameworks are used
• Responsiveness is implemented by media querries
• User accounts with session mechanisms are implemented via cookies and DB
• DB follows good practices and implements:
  • all relation types: one to one, one to many, many to many
  • at least two views
  • at least one trigger
  • at lest one function
  • transactions at propper isolation level
  • operations on references that utilize JOINs
• DB is normalised and does not contain any redundacies
• Code is written according to OOP rules
• Code encorporates SOLID rules
• Application is not generic, e.g. not tied only to ony city area (if it utilizes geolocation in any way)

Notes from lectures

Web application development process

• Concept
• Planning
• UI design and Prototyping
• Design & Development
• Testing
• Marketplace

Web application design process

• Definition of functional requirements
• Market analysis and project draft
• Prototyping
• Interactions definition
• User experience testing

References

• Figma
• Namelix
• Pixabay
• WSL Docker Issue solution after removal of Docker Desktop