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Sprint 1 Retrospective (Capstone)

Up until this point, it has felt like we have mostly been trying to simply get our project to run.
I am not sure if the other teammates have felt this way, but I am anxious to contribute. It would be nice to have something to show for our efforts. It has been slightly frustrating, but I should have expected this slight speed bump.

In light of this, I have not been able to do some of the less important tasks that I wanted to get done. I wanted to research about testing in angular. In addition, I have been wanting to complete a tutorial to refresh my knowledge on Angular. I feel that this is one area that I would really like to round out my knowledge on because I feel it is somewhat lacking.

The bright side is that I was able to get my code to build and run without as much trouble that many of my teammates and other teams have experienced. Also, by the end of yesterday (2/19/19), with some input from me and some of the other teams, it looked like all of us got it to build and run.

A takeaway from this is that I should dedicate at least a sliver of my time everyday to dedicate to this class and project. In the apprenticeship patterns textbook, there was a quote by CS Lewis that I particularly enjoyed, which said “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable.”

I should apply this to learning this information. Even dedicating half an hour a day is better than nothing. I’m going to be a realist and say that on some days this class might be put on the back burner because of looming deadlines and exams from other classes, but I should never let that interfere with doing even a small amount every day.

In class yesterday, the code did not build and run right away, so I decided to go through step by step the commands that I got it to run the first time. You can imagine how nervous I felt when it did not start right away. I thought that since it had already been built, I could just run the last command to start it. It turns out that I had to go through them in order to get it to run the second time around.

The following is a list of commands that I used to get it to run, in this order:

(1) ng serve
(2) ng build —prod
(3) npm start

Note that this is run from the command line in the top layer of the directory that you have designated for the project. After these commands are prompted, go to your web browser, and type the following:

http://localhost:3000/#/login

For node or module problems, I found the solution was to do the following command:

npm rebuild

I experienced this when I was trying to rebuild it yesterday. I breathed a sigh of relief when it was such an easy fix.

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