Ampers - Maddie Shields

[madaleines]

API Muncher

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
How did you go about exploring the Edamam API, how did you try querying the API?	I used Postman with JSON to see the format to access the data
Describe your API Wrapper. How did you decide on the methods you created?	I searched for the query and showed an individual recipe
Describe an edge case or failure case test you wrote for your API Wrapper.	If the word doesn't exist was one. If it does exist. If the query matches the search phrase
Explain how VCR aids in testing an API.	To help limit the amount of times I use my access tokens and also show the recorded versions that work.
What is the Heroku URL of your deployed application?	https://mvs-muncher.herokuapp.com/
Provide a link to the Trello board you used	https://trello.com/b/v5OKz7Pd/recipe-api-consumer

[CheezItMan]

API Muncher

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	Reasonable number of commits and good commit messages
Comprehension questions	Check
General
Rails fundamentals (RESTful routing, use of named paths)	Check
Semantic HTML	Check, although the HTML is minimal.
Errors are reported to the user	If the URI is wrong the show action crashes. There are no messages when there are no search results.
API Wrapper to handle the API requests	Check
Controller testing	MISSING
Lib testing	Missing a negative case for the show action. You also are missing the configuration for VCR in test_helper.rb
Search Functionality	Check
List Functionality	Check
Show individual item functionality (link to original recipe opens in new tab)	Check, although the link to the original recipe is missing
Styling
Responsive layout	Nope
List View shows 10 items at a time/pagination	Check
The app is styled to create an attractive user interface	Minimal interface
API Features
The App attributes Edaman	MISSING
The VCR cassettes do not contain the API key	Without the configuration for VCR in test_helper.rb you aren't saving cassettes!
External Resources
Link to Trello Board	Check, but I don't have access
Link to deployed app on Heroku	Check
Overall	You got it working, as noted you still need to work on testing and making sure VCR is configured.

[CheezItMan]

Making the image a clickable link would improve the user experience.

[CheezItMan]

What purpose does this div element serve?

[CheezItMan]

What about the negative case here? What about if the URI is wrong?

[CheezItMan]

VCR configuration?