Adding Item

Due Date: Tue, Apr 16

Revisions Due: Sun, Apr 21

This weeks assignment is to create a few item pages, each with an add button. When the add button is clicked, it sets that item in a shopping cart so that when the user eventualy goes to the checkout page they see that item. Then, when the order is placed, that item is added to the database as part of that order.

As discussed in class, this should be accomplished using localStorage. Only being available via Javascript could be an issue the site needs to address later on, but the privacy benefits outweigh that problem for now. The server is able to avoid tracking the users activities until the moment when they actually place the order.

Long term, we're of course going to want to add/remove multiple items per order, but techniques for accomplishing that are going to be covered in a later lesson. For this assignment, you should focus on a single item making its way onto the checkout page and into the database. If an item is already in the cart when a new one is added, it can simply replace that old item.

You may be tempted to store the item details in the database, but resist that urge for now. Since North of Boston uses an inventory management system, there is a strong chance these items will instead be controlled via API requests. This is another topic we'll be covering in a later week, so for now you can just hard code a few items into the site.

The last couple weeks we haven't been tending to our story board as much. Now that we're moving into functionality more heavily, though, I've tried to break the work down into smaller stories. Normally these smaller stories would probably combined into a single one with several acceptance tests, but I'm hoping that breaking it into smaller pieces will help you keep track of the individual requirements for this assignment.