Marching Ahead

Last two weeks have been great. I am finally enjoying both reading and writing code. I realise that most of the problems, I had when I was stuck could be solved after a taking a break and reading the code calmly. There were times, I just sat back opened two panes, one of the left and one on the right, and just read the code over and over again, till I got what I was doing wrong.

These two weeks I have been working on completing the views for the web client and made the action buttons functional. Keeping the code similar to GTK client. Discussed which CSV parsing library to use for sao. Ended up choosing PapaParse, and later I tried PapaParse to support custom quote character, which is a feature we support in the GTK Client. And the contribution was merged upstream :D

Did some refactoring, which I previously felt wasn’t necessary. Re-implemented some parts of the views in a better manner. And the best thing I learnt during all this, was using Chrome Dev Tools to map the source files so that I don’t have to Refresh followed by 9 clicks, every time I make some change, to just 3 Clicks! And am also using breakpoints to see the values floating around the function.

This is what I have achieved so far. Currently working on the auto-detection of multi-level field names from an import file.