PA Review: Friendships

[andywynkoop]

Friendships MVP

Users Controller

• method for requested friends (to disable button)
• method for friend requests
• method for all friends (including both approved requests from others and requests to others that have been approved)

Friendships Controller

• method for approving a request - in model
• method for denying a request - via destroy route
• Data from current_user and page load should determine how a page is displayed (friends/ add friend/ requested versions of button)
• Friend requests should trigger a one-time notification on the target user (in main nav - save for notifications bonus?)
• Add data about requests to current_user on the window and include with user data on get requests

Friendship routes

• GET requests for user data include friend request data - key value pairs instead of array O(1)
• POST a friendship request, return the updated user with new friendship data /api/friendships
• PATCH an approval of a request, return the updated user data /api/friendships/:id
• DELETE a rejection of a request, return the updated user data /api/friendships/:id

Frontend

• User can send a friend request from a different user's profile page
• User can click a button in their friend requests dropdown to approve or deny
• User can approve a friend request from the requesting user's profile page
• Friend button will display 'friends' if users are already friends
• Refactor to put friends as key value pairs instead of as an array