Theory to Practice — Passing it on.
The Merchant Market Place:
This project was large and involved two portions. Customer side and a seller side. What we largely completed focused on the seller portion, as well a landing page.
- Sellers Can:
- Sellers can Log in to their personal Profile.
- Sellers can search through their inventory
- Create Product Drafts
- Create Product Listings
- Upload Product Images
- Review Products Posted
Portions Ready But need further Implimentation:
- Seller Dashboard, where seller can review overall store status.
- Landing Page Contents.
What’s Next?
For this site, there needs to be a customer facing view. An actual way for customer to view what people are offering. I would remake the sites search to work with redux, rather than using its own state. On the backend, I would rework the photo upload, so that images are directly tied to each product rather than just matched by ID.
Features I would recommend adding:
- Allow Customers to view a map of locations.
- Create a Profile for customers.
- Create Customer reviews.
- Implement a more responsive design.
Beyond that, I would clean up the css stylings. Make it closer to what our UX team envisioned. Their design is clean and professional and would heavily recommend sticking to it as much as possible.
What have I learned?
Through this experience, I got to practice being an active member of a developement team. I would not say much of what I learned was technical knowledge; I did learn to use AntDesign, refreshed my knowledge at redux, and had plenty of practice debugging my own code. But more importantly I gained experience in communicating issues, giving and receiving feedback, paired programming, mob programming, and overall project planning. Because I started and stayed on the front end, I often found myself helping others, guiding them on what needs to be done next or helping them understand how to use the tool available. This I enjoyed, and having this makes me feel that one day I may want to pursue a leadership role at an organization at some point. That day wont come too soon, I still need to learn and gain more experience. But, this does give me a direction to go towards.
