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jsissuetracker-improved

An improved version of the Pure Javascript tutorial provided by CodingTheSmartWay.com on Medium. The original repo can be found here

What Is This?

I stumbled upon a tutorial on Pure JavaScript - Building A Real-World Application From Scratch from CodingTheSmartWay.com one afternoon, and I loved the idea that this website was trying to share, but the JavaScript used in the tutorial is outdated, broken, and to me, required a lot of refactoring. So, I refactored it.

Why Did I Do This?

I believe that if this is intended to be a teaching tool, then the tool should be accurate and reflect correct programming techniques and ideas. I have come across too many broken, incomplete examples. Hopefully this one helps.

What Did I Do?

• Replaced for loops with ES6's find function - a more legible syntax
• Fixed an issue where the description field used in the saveIssue method did not match the form element's name, resulting in undefined descriptions even after the user added one
• Replaced string concatenation used to create the issue cards with ES6's template strings
• Added some defaults if a description or assigned user are left blank
• separated the retrieval of the issues database into its own function, DRYing it out
• Used ES6 property value shorthand notation
• various other odds and ends

What Else Needs To Happen?

• Definitely should be some tests.
• Bug - the sort changes when a card is marked closed.
• Features
  • search cards
  • sort cards
  • prompt for approval
  • time stamps
  • ... lots more items.

Can I Make Changes To This?

ABSOLUTELY. Please fork and extend. I would like to get to extending this little app, because it is a good example of creating a JS application without standing up a framework, but if you get to it before I do, just submit a PR. Note that there are 34 forks and no PRs in the original repo, with no other contributors in the last 2 years, so rather than fork and wait for a merge that might never happen, I decided to create my own repo.