Individual Contribution for CM2 Berk Göktaş
Responsibilities: I acted as a core Frontend Developer with a focus on two primary modules: the Social Network / Forum ecosystem and the Food/Nutrition Catalog. My responsibilities involved building the interactive user feed and follow mechanisms for the frontend, implementing proposal forms for detailed food proposals (including micronutrients), and visualizing the application's core feature—the Nutrition Score. I was also responsible for maintaining frontend code quality through urgent bug fixes and documenting the mathematical logic behind our scoring algorithms in the app.
Main contributions: Between CM1 and CM2, I focused on transforming the application from a static tracker into a social platform. I implemented the User Feed and Follow/Unfollow features, allowing users to interact with the community. On the nutrition side, I enhanced the Food Proposal flow to support granular micronutrient data, ensuring our database grows with high-quality entries. I also developed the Nutrition Score UI, creating a toggleable view for "Serving Size" vs. "100g" to improve user context. Additionally, I addressed critical technical debt by fixing duplicate imports, resolving urgent privacy issues regarding user profile data and fixing a mistake where the button feature was accidentally removed.
Significant issues:
Code-related:
- #592 & #628 Social (Forum + Profile): User Feed and Forum Follow Frontend Implementation I implemented the frontend logic to fetch and render user activities, effectively creating the main social hub of the application.
- [#549] Explain nutrition score calculation logic I implemented the dynamic UI that calculates and displays the nutrition score, allowing users to toggle between standard serving sizes and normalized 100g views.
- [#596] Implement Nutrition Help Button (Frontend) I implemented the button that calculates and displays the macronutrient values considering the foods consumed in the nutrition tracker, allowing users to check the limits of their macronutrients and get warnings if they exceed their goal or daily maximum.
Non-code-related:
- #745 Writing Milestone 2 Report - Summary of the Customer Feedback and Reflections I authored the technical documentation detailing the feedbacks and resulting reflections.
- #746 Creating mock posts and arranging nutrition values for the demo I generated and structured mock data to populate the forum and feed, ensuring the social features were demonstrable during the milestone presentation. I also selected specific foods to add to the nutrition tracker to demonstrate our new warning system in the demo.
Pull requests that you have created, merged, or reviewed:
- Created #724 readded removed micronutrient buttons (Bug fix)
- Created #722 fixed duplicate imports (Maintenance and Bug fix)
- Created #703 fix: removed email info from profile (Privacy/Urgent)
- Created #698 feat: add micronutrient to food proposal (Feature)
- Created #691 Feat: 596/micronutrients help button (Feature)
- Created #654 Feat/592/frontend user feed (Feature)
- Created #651 Follow/unfollow feature for web frontend (Feature)
- Created #639 Display Nutrition Score for Serving Size & 100g(Feature)
- Created #553 feat/Nutrition Score UI changes
- Reviewed and Merged #674 fix: fix local timing issues in nutrition tracking
- Reviewed and Merged #671 Fix/edit log error
- Reviewed and Merged #717 feat: beautify user page
- Reviewed and Merged #669 fix: fix food log rounding issue
- Reviewed #655 Feat/add micronutrients in food catalog
Conflict Resolution: I experienced minor conflicts regarding duplicate imports in the utility files, which led to build warnings (addressed in PR #722). This was caused by concurrent merges of new features that utilized similar libraries. Additionally, during a merge of the UI beautification branch, specific micronutrient selection buttons were accidentally overwritten/removed; I detected this regression and resolved it by restoring the missing components in PR #724.
Additional information: I performed a comprehensive review of the features we have, and reflected on the feedback given from the CM2 through commenting on our action steps and generating new feature ideas that are approved by Suzan Hoca.
